Bigeye Squaretail
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The bigeye squaretail, ''Tetragonurus atlanticus'', is a fish native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They feed on soft-bodied
medusae Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies or simply jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals, althoug ...
and
salp A salp (: salps, also known colloquially as “sea grape”) or salpa (: salpae or salpas) is a barrel-shaped, Plankton, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. The salp moves by contracting its gelatinous body in order to pump water thro ...
s and will also eat plankton. Their average length is 50 cm, and their habitat is
pelagic The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth. The word ''pelagic'' is derived . The pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or water column between the sur ...
. They are toxic to humans.


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Tetragonuridae Fish described in 1839 {{Scombroidei-stub