Western Atlantic Ocean Eastern Atlantic: Senegal to Angola, including the western Mediterranean, St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121), and Ascension Island. Reported from Mauritania (Ref. 55783). Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Brazil (Ref. 7251); Bahamas, throughout the Caribbean, including Antilles (Ref. 26938) and Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 9626). In the tropical Eastern Pacific, it is replaced by Caranx caballus Günther 1869, which may be conspecific.
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Canada: (Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia)
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