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Caranx caninus Gunther 1867

Description

Caranx caninus Günther, 1867.

Pacific Crevalle Jack. To 100 cm (39.4 in) TL (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Huntington Beach, southern California (Miller and Curtis 2008) to Iquique, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018, Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), less than 1 m (3 ft) to 350 m (1,148 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Caranx hippos is considered a separate Atlantic and Caribbean species.

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 152, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

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  • Miller, E. F. & Curtis, M. D. (2008) First occurrence of a Pacific crevalle jack, Caranx caninus, north of San Diego, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 107, 41 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.3160 / 0038 - 3872 (2008) 107 [41: fooapc] 2.0. co; 2
  • Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
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  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Romero-Berny, E. I., Velazquez-Velaquez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M. J., Urbina-Trejo, E. & Schmitter-Soto, J. J. (2018) The fish fauna of three lagoon-estuarine systems in the northeastern Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexican south Pacific. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 89, 87 - 100. https: // doi. org / 10.22201 / ib. 20078706 e. 2018.1.1927
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