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Caranx caninus Günther, 1867

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Günther, A. (1867). On the fishes of the states of Central America, founded upon specimens collected in fresh and marine waters of various parts of that country by Messrs. Salvin and Godman and Capt. J. M. Dow. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866.</em> (pt 3): 600-604.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Perciformes
family
Carangidae
genus
Caranx
species
Caranx caninus

Name

Homonyms
Caranx caninus Günther, 1867
Common names
Aurel in Spanish
Burel in Spanish
Burro in Spanish
Canche Jurel in Spanish
Carangue Crevalle in French
Chumbo in Spanish
Cocinero in Spanish
Jiguagua in Spanish
Jiguajua in Spanish
Jurel in Spanish
Jurel Caninus in Spanish
Jurel Común in Spanish
Jurelito in Spanish
Pacific Crevalle Jack in English
Pacific crevalle jack in English
Pacific crevalle jack in English
Pacifisk crevalle in Danish
Sargentillo in Spanish
Sargento in Spanish
Toro in Spanish
Xaréu-da-Califórnia in Portuguese
jurel toro in Spanish
jurel toro in Spanish
jurel toro in Spanish
kranas pacifický in Czech
Тихоокеанский большой каранкс in Russian
犬鰺 in Chinese
Pacific Crevalle Jack in English
Aurel in Spanish
Burel in Spanish
Burro in Spanish
Canche Jurel in Spanish
Carangue Crevalle in French
Chumbo in Spanish
Cocinero in Spanish
Jiguagua in Spanish
Jiguajua in Spanish
Jurel in Spanish
Jurel Caninus in Spanish
Jurel Común in Spanish
Jurel Toro in Spanish
Jurelito in Spanish
Pacific crevalle jack in English
Sargentillo in Spanish
Sargento in Spanish
Toro in Spanish
jurel toro in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Günther, A. (1867). On the fishes of the states of Central America, founded upon specimens collected in fresh and marine waters of various parts of that country by Messrs. Salvin and Godman and Capt. J. M. Dow. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866.</em> (pt 3): 600-604.
  3. Kong et al. 1985, Sielfeld et al. 2010.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  6. Page, Lawrence M., Katherine E. Bemis, Thomas E. Dowling, Héctor S. Espinosa-Pérez, et al., eds., 2023: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 37. vii + 439.
  7. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  8. Smith-Vaniz, William F., and Kent E. Carpenter, 2007: Review of the crevalle jacks, Caranx hippos complex (Teleostei: Carangidae), with a description of a new species from West Africa. Fishery Bulletin, vol. 105, no. 2. 207-233.
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