mahi-mahi, common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) Author Hugh McCormick Smith (1865–1941)
Description
English: Dolphin. Coryphaena hippurus
Subject: Coryphaena hippurus
Tag: Fish
Date 1907
Source/Photographer
English: Smith, Hugh M. (1907) Fishes of North Carolina, North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey, vol.II, Raleigh, NC: E. M. Uzzell & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51427_Dolphin_Coryphaena_hippurus.jpeg
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 widely called dorado and dolphin, it is a member of the Coryphaenidae family. Mahi means very strong in Hawaiian. The name mahimahi means very strong in Hawaiian.