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(kə′ran·jə′dē)

(vertebrate zoology) A family of perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei, including jacks, scads, and pompanos.


 
 
WordNet: Carangidae
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
  Synonym: family Carangidae


 
Wikipedia: Carangidae
Jacks, pompanos, horse mackerels and scads
Malabar trevally, Carangoides malabaricus
Malabar trevally, Carangoides malabaricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Carangidae
Genera

Alectis
Alepes
Atropus
Atule
Campogramma
Carangoides
Caranx
Chloroscombrus
Decapterus
Elagatis
Gnathanodon
Hemicaranx
Lichia
Megalaspis
Naucrates
Oligoplites
Pantolabus
Parastromateus
Parona
Pseudocaranx
Scomberoides
Selar
Selaroides
Selene
Seriola
Seriolina
Trachinotus
Trachurus
Ulua
Uraspis
See text for species.

Carangidae is a family of fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, and scads.

They are marine fish found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Most species are fast-swimming predatory fishes that hunt in the waters above reefs and in the open sea; some dig in the sea floor for invertebrates.

The largest fish in the family, the giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, grows up to 1.7 m in length; most fish in the family reach a maximum length of 25–100 cm.

The family contains many important commercial and game fish, notably the Pacific jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, and the other jack mackerels in the genus Trachurus.

Species

There are about 151 species in thirty genera:

Lookdown, Selene vomer
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Lookdown, Selene vomer
  • Genus Selene
    • Mexican lookdown, Selene brevoortii (Gill, 1863).
    • Caribbean moonfish, Selene brownii (Cuvier, 1816).
    • African moonfish, Selene dorsalis (Gill, 1863).
    • Mexican moonfish, Selene orstedii Lütken, 1880.
    • Pacific moonfish, Selene peruviana (Guichenot, 1866).
    • Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis (Mitchill, 1815).
    • Selene spixi (Castelnau, 1855).
    • Lookdown, Selene vomer (Linnaeus, 1758).
  • Genus Seriola
    Greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili
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    Greater amberjack, Seriola dumerili
  • Genus Seriolina
    • Blackbanded trevally, Seriolina nigrofasciata (Rüppell, 1829).
  • Genus Trachinotus
    • Southern pompano, Trachinotus africanus (Delsman, 1941).
    • Oyster pompano, Trachinotus anak Ogilby, 1909.
    • Smallspotted dart, Trachinotus baillonii (Lacépède, 1801).
    • Snubnose pompano, Trachinotus blochii (Lacépède, 1801).
    • Largespotted dart, Trachinotus botla (Shaw, 1803).
    • Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1766).
    • Cayenne pompano, Trachinotus cayennensis Cuvier, 1832.
    • Swallowtail dart, Trachinotus coppingeri Günther, 1884.
    • Permit, Trachinotus falcatus (Valenciennes, 1833).
    • Palometa, Trachinotus goodei Jordan & Evermann, 1896.
    • Longfin pompano, Trachinotus goreensis (Cuvier, 1833).
    • Blackblotch pompano, Trachinotus kennedyi Steindachner, 1876.
    • Plata pompano, Trachinotus marginatus (Gill, 1863).
    • Guinean pompano, Trachinotus maxillosus Cuvier, 1832.
    • Indian pompano, Trachinotus mookalee Cuvier, 1832.
    • Derbio, Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758).
    • Paloma pompano, Trachinotus paitensis Cuvier, 1832.
    • Gafftopsail pompano, Trachinotus rhodopus (Gill, 1863).
    • Steel pompano, Trachinotus stilbe (Jordan & McGregor, 1899).
    • Shortfin pompano, Trachinotus teraia Cuvier, 1832.
  • Genus Trachurus
  • Genus Ulua
    • Silvermouth trevally, Ulua aurochs (Ogilby, 1915).
    • Longrakered trevally, Ulua mentalis (Cuvier, 1833).
  • Genus Uraspis
    • Whitemouth jack, Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801).
    • Cottonmouth jack, Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860).
    • Whitetongue jack, Uraspis uraspis (Günther, 1860).

References

  1. ^ Smith-Vaniz & Jelks (2006). "Australian trevallies of the genus Pseudocaranx (Teleostei: Carangidae), with description of a new species from Western Australia.". Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (1): 97-106. 
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