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tarpon

DEFINITIONS OF: tarpon

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n large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida

Synonyms:
Tarpon atlanticus
Types:
Elops saurus, ladyfish, tenpounder
game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
Type of:
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish
any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
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