title: Selene (fish)
text: # Selene (fish)
  
  Selene is a genus of carangids, commonly known as lookdowns and moonfishes, native to the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
  
  ## Species
  
  There are currently eight recognized species in this genus:
  
  | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
  | - | - | - |
  | Selene brevoortii (T. N. Gill, 1863) | Hairfin lookdown | East Pacific where it is found from southernmost California, United States to northern Peru (occasionally south as far as Chile). |
  | Selene brownii (G. Cuvier, 1816) | Caribbean moonfish | Western Atlantic: continental shelf from Mexico to Colombia and Brazil, and from Cuba to Guadeloupe. |
  | Selene dorsalis (T. N. Gill, 1863) | African moonfish | Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa, including Madeira and Cape Verde |
  | Selene orstedii Lütken, 1880 | Mexican moonfish | Baja California, Mexico to Colombia. |
  | Selene peruviana (Guichenot, 1866) | Peruvian moonfish | southern California in the United States to central South America. |
  | Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815) | Atlantic moonfish | Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada, along coasts of Gulf of Mexico and South America, Argentina. |
  | Selene spixii (Castelnau, 1855) | | Mexico to Espirito Santo, Brazil. |
  | Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758) | Lookdown | Canada and Maine south to Uruguay, including Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico. |
  