name: Dolphin Fish

flavor_db_name_variants: dolphin fish

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Dolphin fish

id: 351

name_scientific: Coryphaena hippurus

description: The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Also known widely as dorado, it is one of two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish. The name mahi-mahi means very strong in Hawaiian. In other languages the fish is known as dorade coryphène, lampuga, llampuga, lampuka, lampuki, rakingo, calitos, or maverikos.

itis_id: 168791

wikipedia_id: Dolphin_fish

picture_file_name: 356.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 146856

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:33:38.000Z

legacy_id: 383

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Fishes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:37.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 34814

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00351