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Caranx hippos

Description

Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 124 cm TL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 1-350 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2019)

Source: bibliography, preserved, observation

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from African coast from Mauritania to Angola and confirmed records for Cape Verde and Ascension Islands. Caught by trawlers, artisanal fishery and the sport fishery, along the coast of Gabon (Cardiec, Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.).

Notes

Published as part of Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, pp. 2-3 in Cybium 46 (2) on page 237, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001, http://zenodo.org/record/13153873

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