lookdown

Lookdown do not play a significant role in commercial fisheries.

It is also referred to as the Mexican lookdown by both countries.

The overall profile of a lookdown's head is concave.

Young lookdown have several faint, vertical bars that fade as the fish grows.

However, lookdown are highly sought after for large public aquarium displays due to their interesting shape and flashy appearance.

The lookdown, Selene vomer, is a game fish of the Carangidae family.

The lookdown, like the Atlantic moonfish, had a deep, rhombus-shaped, laterally-compressed body.

I won the lookdown.

The Blue Gum Forest is often accessed by foot from here, 656 vertical metres below the lookdown.

Some views from Bungonia lookdown, New South Wales, Australia.

Although lookdown are common in tropical, Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles.

Selene brevoortii (Hairfin lookdown)

The lookdown was first described in 1758 by the "father of taxonomy", Carolus Linnaeus, in the 10th edition of his book Systema Naturae.

In the western Atlantic, the lookdown is found from Canada and Maine south to Uruguay, which includes Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico.

Although the word lookdown usually refers to a single species of fish, Selene vomer, there are several other species whose common names also contain the phrase "lookdown".

A popular attraction is "The lookdown", a lookout that offers spectacular views of the Shoalhaven River, Bungonia Gorge and Bungonia Creek.

Although the lookdown is similar to the Atlantic moonfish, it can be distinguished by its dorsal and anal fins, the second ray on each fin being many times longer than the surrounding rays.

Selene brevoortii, which is known both as the Airfin lookdown and the Hairfin lookdown by the United States and Great Britain respectively.

The caudal fin of the lookdown is forked, as in the Pompanos, while the pectoral fin is similar to a scythe and reaches the middle of the second of the lookdown's dorsal fin.

Selene brevoortii, the Hairfin lookdown (also called the Airfin lookdown), is a species of carangid native to the Pacific coast of the Americas where it is found from southernmost Baja California, Mexico to Ecuador.

I wish I could see a spotted trunkfish, a longnose gar, a celestial goldfish, a forceps butterfish, a black-devil, a John Dory, a lookdown, a lionfish, a hogfish, a roosterfish, every living kind of angelfish, and all the ravishing beauties on all the reefs in all the tropical seas.