Yellowtail kingfish
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The yellowtail kingfish or southern kingfish, Seriola lalandi lalandi, is a subspecies of yellowtail amberjack, a jack of the genus Seriola, found off south eastern Australia and the north east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. Their length is between 100 and 180 cm.
The yellowtail kingfish is almost legendary for its abilities as a game fish. They are a solid bodied well streamlined fish with a very small first dorsal fin, dark blue-green on the back and silver on the belly, the two colours separated by a yellow stripe. The pelvic fin is blue-white and all the other fins are yellow, including the tail, from which the common name originates.
They are fast swimming active carnivores, moving either singly or in schools of up to thousands of individuals, often seen circling schools of other fish looking for stragglers.
[edit] References
- "Seriola lalandi". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
