''Albula nemoptera'', also known as the Caribbean bonefish, threadfin bonefish, or shafted bonefish, is a

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of marine

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...

found in the western

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, from Honduras west to

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Taxonomy

This is one of two species of bonefish that was largely accepted by taxonomic authorities prior to the revision of the genus, the other being '' A. vulpes''. Previously, bonefish populations on the eastern Pacific coast from Mexico east to Panama were also included in ''A. nemoptera'', but have since been split into a distinct species, '' A. pacifica''.

References

Albuliformes Fish of the Caribbean Marine fish of Nicaragua Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Fish described in 1911 {{Albuliformes-stub