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Tarpon -- Also Known as the "Silver King"
The Tarpon
The Tarpon is a large silvery fish found in many waters throughout the world, from the Eastern Atlantic Ocean down to Africa, in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and around Florida's Keys, including Islamorada, Florida. This fish is often called the "silver king," according to the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). It is called the silver king by anglers because when it leaps up into the air, and the sun is shining, this fish gives off a bright silvery flash. And when the person fishing is using waders in shallow waters near shore, where Tarpons are known to do their own "fishing" -- that includes estuaries, lagoons and shallow bays -- that bright silver flash beneath the surface is visible as well.
The Literature on the Tarpon
The genus of the Tarpon is Megalops; its family is either Elopiformes or Megalopidae,...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Lafayette, Louisiana asserts that the Tarpon is in the Osteichthyes class, in the Elopiformes Order, and its Family Elopidae or Megalopidae.
The Tarpon has something in common with the hawk: females are larger than males. In fact the mature female Tarpon can grow to over eight feet long and can weight up to 355 pounds, a huge fish that anglers seek because of its good tasting flesh and also because it provides so much food per fish, the Atlantic Panic Web site explains. The Tarpon doesn't reach sexual maturity until it is six or seven years of age; the male Tarpon can live up to 30 years, and the females are known to live up to 50 years and more (Atlantic Panic).
The Atlantic Panic Web site also points out that though the Tarpon is a salt-water fish, it is amazingly versatile…
Works Cited
Atlantic Panic. (2011). Fish Facts: Tarpon. Retrieved June 24, 2011, from http://www.atlanticpanic.com/species/view/tarpon.
Florida Museum of National History. (2009). Ichthyology / Tarpon. Retrieved June 23, 2011,
From http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/tarpon/tarpon.html.
Overlock, Joe. (2010). Could the BP Gulf Oil Spill Put Tarpon on the Endangered Species List?
Examiner. Retrieved June 23, 2011, from http://www.examiner.com.
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