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Snubnose Dart
Trachinotus blochii (Lacépède, 1801)
Above and below: Snubnose Darts at a depth of 10 m, ‘Tak’s Mooring’, Ribbon Reef #3, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, February 2005. Photo © Á. Lumnitzer. View larger image.
The Snubnose Dart is a compressed fish with a steep, blunt snout and very long leading fin rays in the dorsal and anal fins. It is silver coloured, often paler below. The anal fin is dusky orange, the lobe often with a brownish anterior margin.
The species grows to about 65 cm in length.
The Snubnose Dart is a pelagic species that occurs in coral reef, inshore and rocky reef habitats in tropical waters from the Indo-west Pacific to the Central Pacific.
In Australia it is known from south-western Western Australia, around the tropical north of the country and south on the east coast to southern New South Wales.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
It has also been called the Buck-nosed Trevally, Oyster Cracker, Oyster Eater, Snubnosed Pompano and Snub-nosed Swallowtail.
Related links
- Swallowtail Dart fact sheet
- View the Trevallies list
- View the Family Carangidae list
Further reading
- Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & R.C. Steene. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press. Pp. 557.
