Mahi-Mahi
Coryphaena hippurus
A rainbow-fast fish that grows almost while you watch.
Mahi-mahi blaze through warm oceans in electric blue, green, gold, and silver. These tireless hunters grow at an astonishing pace and often search beneath floating Sargassum.
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Ready-to-play deck
Open Ocean Deck
Includes 1 card featuring Mahi-Mahi.
Quick dive
Creature passport
- Home
- They roam tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
- Favorite foods
- They chase flying fish, squid, crustaceans, and many other open-water animals.
- Size check
- Up to about 6.8 ft (2.1 m), though most are smaller
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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Mahi-mahi are fishes and are not related to marine-mammal dolphins.
- 2
A single dorsal fin runs almost the entire length of the body.
- 3
Mature males develop a tall, nearly vertical forehead.
- 4
Their brilliant colors fade quickly after the fish dies.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
Exceptionally fast growth can produce a four-foot fish in its first year.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
Spot a blunt head, long continuous back fin, and glowing blue-green-gold colors.
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