Fish of the Lobotes genus of the Lobotidae (tripletails) family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Tripletail. Photo by © Hans Hillewaert. flickr.com/photos/bathyporeia)
Tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis) was first described in 1790 by the German naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723-1799).
It inhabits the depths of up to 70 meters. It prefers to swim in bays, estuaries with muddy water and river mouths. The maximum recorded length is 110 cm, specimens up to 80 cm are more common. The maximum weight is 19.2 kilograms. It feeds on bottom crustaceans and small fish. Small fish often swim near the surface and mimic leaves fallen to the surface.
(Tripletail. Photo by © Ivan Sazima. fishbase.org)
Lobotes surinamensis was first found In the Mediterranean Sea in the late 19th century. It was found in the Adriatic in 2010 for the first time.
Names of tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis) in other languages as follows:
Λοβόψαρο (Ljovopsaro) (Greek), Dormilona (Spanish), Pesce foglia (Italian), Dreischwanzbarsch (German), Trójchwościk lobotes (Polish), Peixe-folha (Portuguese), Суринамский лобот (Surinamskij lobot) (Russian), Trorepan (Serbian, Croatian), Croupia roche (French).