Showing Food Dolphin fish
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| Name | Dolphin fish | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Coryphaena hippurus | ||||||||||
| Description | The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Also known widely as dorado, it is one of two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish. The name mahi-mahi means very strong in Hawaiian. In other languages the fish is known as dorade coryphène, lampuga, llampuga, lampuka, lampuki, rakingo, calitos, or maverikos. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00351 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Aquatic foods | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Fishes | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Metazoa | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Chordata | ||||||||||
| Class | Actinopteri | ||||||||||
| Order | Carangiformes | ||||||||||
| Family | Coryphaenidae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Coryphaena | ||||||||||
| Species | hippurus | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 168791 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Dolphin_fish | ||||||||||
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| Content Reference | — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. | ||||||||||