Rainbow Runner

• It deliberately rubs against the rough skin of sharks to scrape off skin parasites, a risky behaviour documented in several parts of the world.
• It gathers beneath floating objects in the open sea, a habit the tuna fleets exploit by setting floating platforms adrift.
• It is one of the fastest fish in its family and a regular catch of offshore fishing.
• It is the only representative of its genus, which was created fifteen years after the species was described.
• It swims very fast and hunts small fish, cephalopods and a wide range of planktonic crustaceans.
• It is rare or absent in the Persian Gulf, despite being a practically circumtropical species.

Habitat and environment

Warm open waters, often associated with floating objects and outer reefs

Sexual maturity

Length at first maturity 64.6 cm; it spawns at around 60 cm

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagatis_bipinnulata