milkfish (Chanos chanos) Author	David Starr Jordan  (1851–1931)    
Description	
English: Milkfish, Chanos chanos (L>). Mazatlan
Subject: Milkfish, Chanos
Tag: Fish
Date	1907
Source/Photographer	
English: Jordan, David Starr (1907) Fishes, New York City, NY: Henry Holt and Company
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_51741_Milkfish,_Chanos_chanos_(L-)_Mazatlan.jpeg
The milkfish (Chanos chanos) is the sole living species in the family Chanidae. Chanos chanos occurs in the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean, from South Africa to Hawaii and the Marquesas, from California to the Galapagos, north to Japan, south to Australia. Milkfishes commonly live in tropical offshore marine waters around islands and along continental shelves.