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Carangidae

Description

Carangidae

Campogramma glaycos (Lacepède, 1801) —Vadigo

* Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815) —Blue runner

New record from Madeira based on numerous underwater photos by the first author (e.g. figure 4) and two specimens in the collection of the MMF (MMF 26885 and 34505).

Caranx hippos (Linné, 176)—Crevalle jack

Recorded from Madeira by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986: 825). A closely related and very similar species, Caranx fischeri, has been described from the eastern Atlantic (Smith-Vaniz and Carpenter 2007; photo in Wirtz et al. 2007). Specimens or photos are needed to decide if both these species occur at Madeira or only one of them.

* Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831 —Horse-eye jack

Caranx lugubris Poey, 1860 —Black jack

Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 —False scad

Not recorded from Madeira by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986: 827) or Smith-Vaniz et al. in Quéro et al. (1990: 734). Fowler (1936: 685) states under Decapterus rhonchus "In the U.S. National Museum an adult from Madeira, obtained by Captain William Stimpson." This record, however, needs verification.

* Decapterus macarellus (Cuvier, 1833) —Mackerel scad

* Decapterus punctatus (Cuvier, 1829) —Round scad

Not mentioned from Madeira by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986: 828) but recorded from Madeira by Smith-Vaniz et al. in Quéro et al. (1990: 737-738).

Lichia amia (Linnaeus, 1758) —Leerfish

* Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758) —Pilotfish

* Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)—White trevally

Selene dorsalis (Gill, 1863) —African moonfish

* Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810) —Greater amberjack

Not recorded from Madeira by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986: 837-838) or Smith-Vaniz et al. in Quéro et al. (1990: 747) but common at Madeira and recorded from there by Wirtz (1994: 84), with a colour photo of animals from Madeira. Seriola dumerili is very similar to Seriola carpenteri Mather, 1971; the only external charcter that can be used to distinguish adults of the two species is the shape of the posterior end of the upper jaw (supramaxilla wider in S. dumerili). A photo of the head of an animal from Madeira was sent to Willam Smith-Vaniz who positively identified it as belonging to Seriola dumerili. Two specimens in the MMF collection (MMF 35582 and 35583).

* Seriola fasciata (Bloch, 1793) —Lesser amberjack

* Seriola rivoliana Valenciennes, 1833 —Almaco jack

* Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Derbio

* Trachurus picturatus (Bowdich, 1825) —Blue jack mackerel

* Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Atlantic horse mackerel

Notes

Published as part of Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 1715 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274128

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Carangidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Smith-Vaniz, W. F. & Carpenter, K. E. (2007) Review of the crevalle jacks, Caranx hippos complex (Teleostei: Carangidae), with description of a new species from West Africa. Fishery Bulletin, 206 (2), 207 - 233.
  • Quero, J. C., Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (1990) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic. 3 volumes. Lisbon.
  • Fowler, H. W. (1936) The marine fishes of West Africa based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, 1909 - 1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 70 (1 - 2), Part 1, 1 - 605; part 2, 607 - 1493.
  • Risso, A. (1810) Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du departement des Alpes Maritimes. F. Schoell, Paris. Ichthyol. Nice, i - xxxvi + 1 - 388, Pls. 1 - 11.
  • Wirtz, P. (1994) Unterwasserfuhrer Madeira, Kanaren, Azoren: Fische - Underwater Guide Madeira, Canary Islands, Azores: Fish. Naglschmid Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • Bowdich, T. E. (1825) Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa. London (G. B. Whittaker), xii + 278 pp.