Fish
Rainbow Runner
Elagatis bipinnulata
A sleek, fast-swimming member of the jack family, built like a torpedo and marked with blue-green and yellow racing stripes.
Also known as reenboog- pylvis
- Habitat
- Open water pelagic
The rainbow runner is a slender, streamlined pelagic that ranges the open ocean in fast-moving shoals, its colours running to blue and green above with bright lengthwise stripes along the flank.
A strong swimmer and gamefish, it is caught by anglers and taken by spearos out over deeper water, well clear of the bottom.