Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Carangidae
- genus
- Caranx
- species
- Caranx melampygus
description
Bluefin Jack, Blue Trevally, or Bluefin Trevally. To 117 cm (46.1 in) FL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.); Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) to Isla Gorgona, Colombia (Franke and Acero 1993), including lower Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Nearshore; marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: surface (Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018), 1 – 230 m (3 – 754 ft) (min.: Laboute and Grandperrin 2000; max.: Ralston et al. 1986). A hybrid of this species and Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 was taken off Panama (Angulo et al. 2020).
Name
- Homonyms
- Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833