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About Tripletail

The Atlantic tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis), also known as the black grunt, black perch, buoy fish, buoyfish, brown triple tail, brown tripletail, conchy leaf, dusky triple-tail, dusky tripletail, flasher, sleepfish, triple tail, triple-tail, tripletail, or tripple tail is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lobotidae. This fish is found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world except for the Eastern Pacific Ocean, where its sister species, the Pacific tripletail (Lobotes pacifica) is found. Taxonomy The Atlantic tripletail was first formally described in 1790 as Holocentrus surinamensis by the German physician and naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch with its type locality given as the Caribbean Sea off Suriname. In 1830 Georges Cuvier proposed the new genus Lobotes with Holocentrus surinamensis its type species by monotypy. Some authorities treat Lobotes as a monospecific genus with the Pacific tripletail (L. pacifica) being regarded as a synonym of a single pantropical L. surinamensis. Lobotes is one of two genera in the family Lobotidae which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies in the order Spariformes, although has also been...