Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833
Description
Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833.
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Caranx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Species
- melampygus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (Eds). (2019) FishBase. World Wide Web Electronic Publication. www. fishbase. org, version (12 / 2019).
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Franke, R. & Acero P, A. (1993) Peces carangoideos del Parque Gorgona, Pacifico Colombiano (Osteichthys: Carangidae, Nematistiidae y Coryphaenidae). Revista Biologia Marina, 28, 51 - 73.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Koeda, K., Hibino, Y., Yoshida, T., Kimura, Y., Miki, R., Kunishima, T., Sasaki, D., Furukawa, T., Sakurai, M., Eguchi, K., Suzuki, H., Inaba, T., Uejo, T., Tanaka, S., Fujisawa, M., Wada, H. & Uchiyama, T. (2016) Annotated Checklist of Fishes of Yonaguni-jima Island, the Westernmost Island in Japan. Kagoshima University Museum, Korimoto, Kagoshima.
- Sanchez-Jimenez, A., Naranjo-Elizondo, B., Rodriguez-Arrieta, A., Quesada, A., Blum, S., McCosker, J. E., Robertson, D. R., Auster, P. J. & Cortes, J. (2018) Updated catalogue of bony fishes observed in deep waters at Isla del Coco National Park and Las Gemelas Seamount, Costa Rica (Eastern Tropical Pacific). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 66, (Supplement 5), S 1 - S 113. https: // doi. org / 10.15517 / rbt. v 66 i 5.34943
- Laboute, P. & Grandperrin, R. (2000) Poissons de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Catharine Ledru, IRD, Noumea.
- Ralston, S., Gooding, R. M. & Ludwig, G. M. (1986) An ecological survey and comparisons of bottom fish resource assessments (submersible versus handline fishing) at Johnston Atoll. Fishery Bulletin, 84, 141 - 155.
- Angulo, A., Molina, J. L, Hampl, F. & Hernandez, S. (2020) First record of hybridization in Caranx Lacepede, 1801 (Carangidae: Perciformes) in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 4890, 266 - 274. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / Zootaxa,. 4890.2.7