Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787) .

African Pompano. Possibly to 130–150 cm (50–60 in) FL (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) and southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998); eastern Pacific from Bahía Santa Maria (24°40’N, 112°11’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including lower Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Coastal waters; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 1–100 m (3–328 ft) (Laboute and Grandperrin 2000).