The Elopidae are a family of ray-finned fish containing a single living genus Elops. They are commonly known as ladyfish, skipjacks, jack-rashes, or tenpounders.

Family Elopidae (ladyfish or tenpounder)Very generalized fish, the living forms having 32–35 branchiostegal rays and the swim bladder unmodified. Length to 0.9 metre (about 3 feet); weight to about 13 kg (28.5 pounds). 1 living genus (Elops) with 5 or 6 species; circumtropical.

The order Elopiformes contains two families: the Elopidae and the Megalopidae. The family Megalopidae contains the single genus Megalops. Two species of tarpon exist worldwide. The Atlantic tarpon occurs in the eastern and western Atlantic, and the oxeye tarpon occurs in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

elopiform, (order Elopiformes), any member of a group of archaic ray-finned fishes that includes the tarpons (Megalops) and the ladyfishes (Elops). Elopiforms live in marine and brackish water habitats.

Familia: Elopidae Genera: † Ctenodentelops – † Echinelops – Elops – † Elopsomolos – † Megalops – † Palelops – † Paratarpon – † Rhacolepis

The Elopiformes / ˈɛləpɪfɔːrmiːz / are the order of ray-finned fish including the tarpons, tenpounders, and ladyfish, as well as a number of extinct types. They have a long fossil record, easily distinguished from other fishes by the presence of an …

Medium-sized fishes with a slender silvery body, a large mouth reaching beyond the eye, a single short-based dorsal fin on the middle of the back, abdominal pelvic fins positioned below the dorsal fin, pectoral fins low on the sides just behind the gill openings, and a strongly forked tail.

The Elopidae are a family of ray-finned fish containing a single living genus Elops. They are commonly known as ladyfish, skipjacks, jack-rashes, or tenpounders.

Chiefly marine; enter estuaries and freshwater, especially as juveniles. Distribution: tropical and subtropical waters. Body fusiform, oval, slightly compressed. Eyes big, partially covered with …

Elops hawaiensis Regan 1909 –ensis, Latin suffix denoting place: Hawaiian Islands, type locality. Elops lacerta Valenciennes 1847 Latin equivalent of the Greek saúra (σαύρα), lizard, alluding to the name of E. saurus.