''Lobotes'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

perciform Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means " ...

fishes known as the tripletails native to subtropical and tropical waters in all oceans. This is the sole genus in the

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Lobotidae.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''

Lobotes pacificus ''Lobotes pacificus'', commonly known as the Pacific tripletail or West Coast tripletail, is a species of fish in the genus ''Lobotes''. It is found near the coast in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, at depths between the su ...

'' C. H. Gilbert, 1898 (Pacific tripletail) * ''

Lobotes surinamensis The Atlantic tripletail or tripletail (''Lobotes surinamensis'') is a warm-water marine fish found across the tropics; it can grow to 90 cm long and weigh 18 kg. It is also known by fishermen by names like flasher or steamboat. You ...

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, 1790) (Atlantic tripletail)

References

* Taxa named by Georges Cuvier {{Perciformes-stub