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The giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis), also known as the lowly trevally, barrier trevally, ronin jack, giant kingfish, or ulua, is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae.
A school of Pacific crevalle jack, Caranx caninus in Panama. The species in the genus Caranx are all moderately large to very large fishes, growing from around 50 cm in length to a known maximum length of 1.7 m and 80 kg in weight; a size which is only achieved by the giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, the largest species of Caranx. [15]
The bluefin trevally displays some habitat partitioning with giant trevally, Caranx ignobilis, tending to be more common outside the major bays than their relatives. [22] Juvenile and subadult bluefin trevally have been recorded in estuaries in several locations, [19] and generally occupy large, open estuaries up to the middle reaches of the ...
The blacktip trevally (Caranx heberi), also known as the blacktip kingfish or yellowtail kingfish, is a species of large marine fish classified in the jack family Carangidae. The blacktip trevally is distributed throughout the tropical to subtropical Indian and West Pacific Oceans , ranging from South Africa in the west to Fiji , Japan and ...
Carangiformes is a large, diverse order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha.It is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, alongside its sister group, the Anabantaria (including Anabantiformes and Synbranchiformes).
Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766) (crevalle jack) Caranx ignobilis (Forsskål, 1775) (giant trevally) Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831 (horse-eye jack) Caranx lugubris Poey, 1860 (black jack) Caranx melampygus G. Cuvier, 1833 (bluefin trevally) Caranx papuensis Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877 (brassy trevally) Caranx rhonchus É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ...
Many genera have fairly extensive fossil records, particularly Caranx and Seriola, which extend into the early Paleogene (late Thanetian), and are known from whole and incomplete specimens, skeletal fragments, and otoliths. The several extinct genera include Archaeus, Pseudovomer, and Eastmanalepes.
These Red Sea fish are listed as Reef-associated by Fishbase: . Acanthuridae. Acanthurus gahhm, Black surgeonfish; Acanthurus mata, Elongate surgeonfish; Acanthurus nigrofuscus, Brown surgeonfish