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Title: Tarpon In Mangrove. Mexico
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A school of tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) swim beneath red mangrove tree roots (Rhizophora mangle) in a freshwater cenote (or limestone sinkhole) beneath a mangrove forest. Casa Cenote, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Mexico.
Tarpon can gulp air at the surface to enable them to live in low oxygen environments, that can't support other large predators.
Tarpon can gulp air at the surface to enable them to live in low oxygen environments, that can't support other large predators.
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Casa Cenote
- cave
- cavern
- cenote
- Cesar Augusto Alejos
- Fishes
- freshwater
- mangrove
- Mangroves
- Marine Life
- Mexico
- quintana roo
- red mangrove tree: Rhizophora mangle
- tarpon: Megalops atlanticus
- Tarpons: Elopidae
- tropical
- tulum
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- Yucatan
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