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ALL AREASAbaya Acheloos Adour Adriatic sea Aegean Sea Agnébi Agulhas Current Albegna Aliakmon Amazon Amudar'ya Amur Anadyr River Andaman Sea Antarctic Arabian sea Aral Sea Arctic Ocean Atlantic Complex Atlantic ocean Atulayan Bay Australian Azores Islands Baffin bay Baikal Balearic basins Balearic Islands Balkan river drainages and lakes Balkanabat basin Baltic Sea Bandama Bank 8 Bank 9 Barents Sea Barents Sea Islands basins Barents Sea river drainages and lakes Bay of Bengal Bay of Biscay river drainages and lakes Beaufort Sea Benguela Current Benue River Bia Black Sea Bosten Lake Boubo British islands basins Brooks Banks Bruna Bug Buluan Calamianes Islands Calauag Bay Californian current Canary Current Cantabrian sea Cargados Carajos Shoals Caribbean Sea Carigara Bay Casamance Caspian Sea Cauvery Cavally Celestún Biosphere Reserve Celtic-Biscay Shelf Central Danube Central Dnieper Central Don Central Turkey river drainages and lakes Cess Chad Chang-hwa Chesapeake Bay Chiku River Chilika Lake/Lagoon Comoé Congo Coral Sea and GBR Corsica basins Corsica Island Corubal Cote Azur Crete Island Crimean Peninsula Cross Cruiser Tablemount Cyprus basins Da River Danish islands basins Danube Danube Delta Davao Gulf Denmark river drainages and lakes Desna Discovery Bay Dnester Dnieper Dnieper & South Bug drainage Dnieper-Bug Liman Don Don Delta Dordogne Douro Drava River Dwina East Brazil Shelf East Central Australian Shelf East China Sea East Greenland Shelf/Sea East Siberian Sea Eastern Black Sea Eastern Caspian Sea river drainages and lakes Eastern Mediterranean river drainages and lakes Ébrié Lagoon Ebro Eholié Elbe River Erh-jen-shi Erhjen River Erqishi River Ethiopian Euphrates Faroe islands basins Faroe Plateau Fatala Fiora Galician Shelf Gambia Garonne Géba Golfo de Fonseca Goryn Gotland basins Great Australian Bight Great Barrier Reef Great Lakes Great Meteor Tablemount Great Scarcies Greek islands basins Guadiana Guinea Current Gulf of Aden Gulf of Alaska Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of california Gulf of Maine Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman Gulf of Thailand Hancock Northwest Seamount Hancock Southeast Seamount Hecate Strait Herault Hsiao-liu-chiu Hsin-chu Humboldt's current Iberian Coastal Iberian main basins Iceland river drainages and lakes Iceland shelf/Sea Indian Ocean Indonesian Sea Insular pacific-hawaiian Ionian Sea Ireland river drainages and lakes Italy main basins Johnstone Strait Josephine Seamount Juan de Fuca Strait Kainji Lake Kama Kamchatka Kaoping River Kara River Kariba Kasai River Khoper Kimbe Bay Kingman Reef Kivu Kogon Kolyma Konkouré Krinka Kuban River Kuroshio Current Ladoga Lake Lagonoy Gulf Laguna de Bay Laguna de Términos Laguna del Mar Muerto Lake Turkana Lanao Laptev Sea Le Danois Bank Leyte Gulf Lingayen Gulf Little Scarcies Livenza Lofa-Mano Loire Lower Congo Lower Danube Lower Dnieper Lower Prypiats Lower Volga Lualaba Lutao Island Mackenzie Magdalena Mainit Malebo Pool Marañón Marine Lower Congo Maritza Marmara Mediterranean Sea Medvedista Mekong Middle Bank Middle Congo Milne Bay Mississippi Missouri Moa Mono Murray-Darling Nakdong Naujan Neartic Negro Nelson-Saskatchewan Neman (Niamunas) River Neotropical Nero Seamount New zealand shelf Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf Niger Nile North Australian Shelf North Brazil Shelf North Sea Northampton Seamount Northeast Australian Shelf Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Northern Atlanto-Baltic river drainages and lakes Northern Caspian Sea river drainages and lakes Northwest Australian Shelf Norwegian Sea Ob-Irtysh Oder Odra River Ogowe Ogun Ombrone Onega Lake Onega River Oriental Orinoco Ormoc Bay Oshun Ouémé Pacific Central-American Coastal Pacific ocean Pagbilao Bay Paleartic Pampana Panay Gulf Panguil Bay Paraná Patagonian shelf Pechora Peng-hu Island Penobscot bay Persian Gulf Peru-Galapagos waters Plateau Seamount Po Polynesian Waters Pra Prut Prypiats Psel Puget Sound Ragay Gulf Raita Bank Red sea Rhine Rhône Rio Grande Rokel Ruerhmen River Ruki River Region Ruvu Sabaki Saint John Saint Paul Saint Rogatien Bank Sakarya Nehri Sal Salish Sea Salmon Bank Samar Sea San Miguel Bay San Pedro Bay Sanaga Sangha Sarata Sardinia basins Sardinia Island Sargasso Sea Sassandra Sava River Scotian Shelf Sea of Azov Sea of Azov river drainages and lakes Sea of Japan Sea of Marmara Sea of Okhotsk Seine Senegal Severn Severskiy Donets Sewa Shetland islands basins Shihtsao River Shiliao River Sicily basins Sicily Island Sikao Creek Siret Skadar Small Don Central Sogod Bay Somali Coastal Current Sorsogon Bay South Brazil Shelf South China Sea Southeast Australian Shelf Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf Southern Baltic Coastal river drainages and lakes Southern Caspian Sea river drainages and lakes Southwest Australian Shelf Southwest chilean waters Spratly Islands St. Lawrence Complex Strait of Georgia Struma River Sulu-Celebes Sea Syvash abo Gnyle more Taal Lake Tagus Tai-chung Tana River Tanganyika Tano Tanshui River Tarim Tasman Sea Tawi tawi Bay Tayabas Bay Teterev Tigris Tisza Toba Torne River Trindade Island Tsengwen River Tubbataha Reefs Tumba Tung-hsiao Twin Banks Ubangui Uélé Ulugan Bay Upper Danube Upper Dnieper Upper Don Upper Lualaba Upper Prypiats Upper Volga Ural Uruguay Var Verde Island Passage Victoria Visayan Sea Vistula Volga Volta Weser West Central Australian Shelf West Greenland Shelf Western Caspian Sea river drainages and lakes White Sea Yegorlyk-Manych Yellow Sea Yenice Irmagi Yili River Yukon Yun-gan Zapadnaya Seamount Åland basins Öland basins

Species data

Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758)

Maximum recorded size:

70.0 cm TL (male)

Specimen n°MNHN-6461 Study collection of P. Béarez (Paris, France)

Determination   Béarez, P. (1994) Length   35.7 cm SL, 43.6 cm TL Collection site   Puerto Lopez (Ecuador)