Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes 1847 (Fig. 6F). Tarpon, Atlantic Tarpon; Sábalo, Sábalo Real, Tarpón, Tarpón del Atlántico Vouchers: UCR 1091-001 (1) and 1092-001 (1). Distribution: Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans; from southern Nova Scotia, Canada, to southern Brazil in the western Atlantic, from southern France to Angola in the eastern Atlantic and from southern Guatemala to southern Colombia in the Eastern Pacific; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) Co, UI, WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF and LN (Atlantic); 0–31 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; VU A2bd (2019), population trend decreasing. Literature: Meek (1907: 111, as Tarpon atlanticus —synonym; brief description, including an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Astorqui (1975: 93; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Villa (1982: 77, as T. atlanticus —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 61; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), González-Alemán (2006: 81; brief description, including an illustration, and information on distribution and ecology), Gros & Miguel-Frithz (2010: 153; brief description, including illustrations, and information on distribution and ecology, plus indigenous science and ethnoichthyology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 2522; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), van den Berghe (2015: 36; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 2522; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Castellanos-Galindo et al. (2019: 401; information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 20; listed, including information on distribution).

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788