{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Selene vomer 1.jpg | image_caption = Lookdown ''(S. vomer)'' | image2 = Selene brevoortii, Thousand Oaks library - 3.jpg | image2_caption = Hairfin lookdown ''(S. brevoorti)'', frontal view | taxon = Selene | authority = [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1802 | type_species = ''[[Lookdown|Selene argentea]]'' | type_species_authority = Lacepède, 1802<ref name = CofF>{{Cof record|genid=514|title=''Selene''|access-date=30 November 2019}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Argyreiosus'' <small>Lacepède, 1802</small> *''Platysomus'' <small>[[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1839</small> *''Vomer'' <small>[[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1816</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofFF>{{Cof family|family=Carangidae|access-date=30 November 2019}}</ref> }}
'''''Selene''''' is a [[genus]] of [[carangid]]s, commonly known as '''lookdowns''' and '''moonfishes''', native to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the eastern [[Pacific Ocean]].
==Species== There are currently seven recognized species in this genus. The [[Mexican moonfish]] was formerly included here as well, but is now placed in the genus ''Paraselene''.<ref name="ECoF species">{{Catalog of Fishes |family=Carangidae |list=species |date=12 February 2026}}</ref><ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Selene| month = February | year = 2026}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |[[File:Selene brevoortii, Thousand Oaks library - 1.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Selene brevoortii]]'' <small>([[Theodore Nicholas Gill|T. N. Gill]], 1863)</small> ||Hairfin lookdown|| East Pacific where it is found from southernmost California, United States to northern Peru (occasionally south as far as Chile). |- | || ''[[Selene brownii]]'' <small>([[Georges Cuvier|G. Cuvier]], 1816)</small> ||Caribbean moonfish||Western Atlantic: continental shelf from Mexico to Colombia and Brazil, and from Cuba to Guadeloupe. |- | || ''[[Selene dorsalis]]'' <small>([[Theodore Nicholas Gill|T. N. Gill]], 1863)</small> ||African moonfish||Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to South Africa, including Madeira and Cape Verde |- |[[File:Selene peruviana.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Selene peruviana]]'' <small>([[Alphone Guichenot|Guichenot]], 1866)</small> ||Peruvian moonfish|| southern California in the United States to central South America. |- |[[File:Selene setapinnis (S0587) (12592113974).jpg|120px]] || ''[[Selene setapinnis]]'' <small>([[Samuel Latham Mitchill|Mitchill]], 1815)</small> ||Atlantic moonfish||Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada, along coasts of Gulf of Mexico and South America, Argentina. |- | || ''[[Selene spixii]]'' <small>([[Francis de Laporte de Castelnau|Castelnau]], 1855)</small>||||Mexico to Espirito Santo, Brazil. |- |[[File:Lookdown25.jpg|120px]] || ''[[Selene vomer]]'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)</small> ||Lookdown||Canada and Maine south to Uruguay, including Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico. |- |}
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[[Category:Selene (fish)| ]] [[Category:Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède]] [[Category:Marine fish genera]]
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