What is "tarpons"

Usage examples of "tarpons".

She did not see the girls diving into the transparent rivers like tarpons, leaving the passengers on the train with the bitterness of their splendid breasts, or the miserable huts of the workers all huddled together where Mauricio Babilo­nia’s yellow butterflies fluttered about and in the door­ways of which there were green and squalid children sitting on their pots, and pregnant women who shouted insults at the train.

Liz’s impulse was to replace her mask and breathing gear, and dive down where it was cooler—but a strong current kept her pinned to the surface, trapped near other unwilling victims: a pair of chattering dolphins, the school of now-thrashing tarpons, a struggling barracuda.