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  2. Giant trevally - Wikipedia

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    A mature male giant trevally showing the black colouration common in these older fish. The giant trevally is widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Bay of Bengal and Indian and Pacific Oceans, ranging along the coasts of three continents and many hundreds of smaller islands and archipelagos. [15]

  3. List of marine fishes of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Found in the open sea, sandy lagoons and rocky areas. Like other carangues, it can be caught by trailing an empty hook (which the fish mistakes for a small moving sea creature!) Piscivorous 50 cm. Commercial fish Giant trevally (Carangue grande face) Flattened body, with a somewhat bulging head. Dark yellow to silver above, silvery below.

  4. Man-eating animal - Wikipedia

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    A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense.

  5. Piscivore - Wikipedia

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    Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) eating a catfish An Atlantic puffin with a mouth full of lesser sand eels. A piscivore (/ ˈ p ɪ s ɪ v ɔːr /) is a carnivorous animal that primarily eats fish. The name piscivore is derived from Latin piscis 'fish' and vorō 'to devour'.

  6. List of common commercial fish of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community. So, the marine fish fauna gives a greater commercial value to the country's economy, as well as well being of the coastal people. [2] Marine fish are strictly different from freshwater counterparts due to high salinity of sea water, which they live.

  7. Bluefin trevally - Wikipedia

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    The bluefin trevally is a large fish, growing to a maximum known length of 117 cm and a weight of 43.5 kg, [2] however it is rare at lengths greater than 80 cm. [8] It is similar in shape to a number of other large jacks and trevallies, having an oblong, compressed body with the dorsal profile slightly more convex than the ventral profile, particularly anteriorly.

  8. Do fish feel pain? Why some scientists are split on the debate

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    Zangroniz said studies only use a few species of fish and don't represent the more than 30,000 fish species that exist. She added pain is measured in mammals on the grimace scale, often seen in ...

  9. Caranx - Wikipedia

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    Caranx is a genus of tropical to subtropical marine fishes in the jack family Carangidae, commonly known as jacks, trevallies and kingfishes.They are moderate- to large-sized, deep-bodied fishes which are distinguished from other carangid genera by specific gill raker, fin ray and dentition characteristics.