Published June 6, 2025
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Hemicaranx bicolor
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology, Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria & Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
- 2. Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
- 3. Department of Marine Ecology, Shantou University, China
- 4. Federal College of Wildlife Management, New Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria
Description
Hemicaranx bicolor (Günther);
Bicolor jack
Remarks: Hemicaranx bicolor, synonymized with Caranx bicolor (Günther), was a common catch across all our sampling locations. This species is distributed in marine and brackish waters, ranging from Senegal through the Gulf of Guinea to Angola. Hemicaranx bicolor is characterized by a moderately elongated, deep, and strongly compressed body, with a bluntly rounded snout and a small eye. The dorsal body coloration is dark blue green, transitioning to a silvery hue ventrally. Other notable features include a prominent black blotch on the operculum and black coloration along the dorsal-fin margin and tips of the upper caudal-fin lobe.
Notes
Published as part of Oladipo, Segun Olayinka, Everett, Amaya, Atofarati, Olabisi Tawakalit, Smith, Kennedy K., Nneji, Ifeanyi C., Adelakun, Kehinde Moruf & Nneji, Lotanna Micah, 2025, An updated ichthyofaunal checklist for the Nigerian Lagos Lagoon with notes on nomenclatural changes and the conservation status of species, pp. 38-62 in Zootaxa 5646 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5646.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15818464
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Hemicaranx
- Species
- bicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemicaranx bicolor (Gunther, 1860) sec. Oladipo, Everett, Atofarati, Smith, Nneji, Adelakun & Nneji, 2025