Mexican halfbeak

Food Value

Unknown

Environments

Species considered (pelagic) living and feeding in the open sea; associated with the surface or middle depths of a body of water, free swimming in the seas, oceans or open waters; not in association with the bottom. Many pelagic fish feed on schooling bait fish and the predatory fish that feed on the bait fish.

Distribution

Central America: freshwater streams and lagoons of the Usumacinta River drainage in Petén, Guatemala westward to the Coatzacoalcos River in México.