Caranx sexfasciatus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits coastal and oceanic waters associated with reefs[1]. Occasionally enters rivers . Juveniles may be encountered in estuaries [1], occasionally entering rivers and penetrating well inland [2]. Forms slow-moving schools in the passes or outside the reef during the day, dispersing at night feed [3].

Ecology: Caranx sexfasciatus adults are associated with coral reefs and are found in coastal and oceanic waters to depths of 146 m. Adults school in passes or the outer reef during the day, and disperse at night to feed . Juveniles school in estuaries and harbours. Individuals feed primarily upon fish and crustaceans.[4].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.1     Marine Neritic - Pelagic   
  
•     9.8     Marine Neritic - Coral Reef   
  
•     10     Marine Oceanic   
  
•     10.1     Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)   
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Biology

Diet

Feeds mainly on fishes and crustaceans[1].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Carangus carangus (non Bloch • Carangus hippos (non Linnaeus • Carangus marginatus • Carangus marginatus Gill • Carangus rhabdotus • Carangus rhabdotus Jenkins • Caranx belengerii • Caranx belengerii Cuvier • Caranx butuanensis • Caranx butuanensis Seale • Caranx carangus (non Bloch • Caranx elacate • Caranx elacate Jordan & Evermann • Caranx flavocoeruleus • Caranx flavocoeruleus Temminck & Schlegel • Caranx forsteri • Caranx forsteri Cuvier • Caranx fosteri • Caranx fosteri Cuvier • Caranx hippos (Linnaeus • Caranx marginatus • Caranx marginatus (Gill • Caranx oshimai • Caranx oshimai Wakiya • Caranx paraspistes • Caranx paraspistes Richardson • Caranx peronii • Caranx peronii Cuvier • Caranx sexfaciatus e • Caranx sexfaciatus elacate (Jordan & Evermann • Caranx sexfaciatus marginatus (Gill • Caranx sexfaciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 • Caranx sexfaciatus Quoy & Gaimard • Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 1824 • Caranx tapeinosoma Bleeker • Caranx thompsoni Seale • Caranx xanthopygus Cuvier

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Quoy & Gaimard In: Voy.Uranie,Zool., 1825.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 20-Jun-1995

Similar Species

Members of the genus Caranx

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 74 species and subspecies in this genus:

Pseudocaranx dentex (Cavallyjack) · C. altissimus (Trevally) · C. amblyrhynchus (Bluntnose Jack) · C. auroguttatus (Goldspotted Jack) · C. bartholomaei (Yellow Jack) · C. bicolor (Bicolor Jack) · C. boops (Yellowband Scad) · C. bucculentus (Wide-Mouthed Trevally) · C. caballus (Green Jack) · C. caeruleopinnatus (Japanese Trevally) · C. caninus (Pacific Crevalle Jack) · C. sexfasciatus (Greenspotted Kingfish) · C. chilensis (Juan Fernandez Trevally) · C. chrysophrys (Club-Nosed Trevally) · Carangoides armatus (Longfin Kingfish) · Carangoides armatus (Longfin Kingfish) · C. crysos (Blue Runner) · C. declivis (Greenback Horse Mackerel) · C. delicatissimus (Hard-Tail Jack) · C. dinema (Twothread Trevally) · C. djedaba (Slender Yellowtail Kingfish) · C. dumerili (Purplish Amberjack) · C. ekala (Turrum) · C. equula (Whitefinned Crevalle) · C. ferdau (Yellowspotted Crevalle) · C. fischeri (Longfin Crevalle Jack) · C. fulvoguttatus (Yellowspotted Kingfish) · C. georgianus (White Trevally) · C. guara (Gwelly) · C. gymnostethus (Naked Breast Trevally) · C. heberi (Yellowtail Kingfish) · C. helvolus (Whitetongued Crevalle) · C. hippo (Crevalle Jack) · C. hippos (Black Cavalla) · C. hippos hippos (Black-Tailed Trevally) · C. humerosus (Duskyshoulder Trevally) · C. ignobilis (Forsskål´s Indo-Pacific Jack Fish) · C. koheru (Koheru) · C. latus (Horse-Eye Trevally) · C. leptolepis (Yellow-Striped Trevally) · C. leucurus (Bluntnose Jack) · C. lugubris (Black Tongue Fish) · C. lutescens (Araara) · C. macarellus (Mackerel Scad) · C. maruadsi (White-Tipped Mackerel Scad) · C. medusicola (Black-Tipped Trevally) · C. melampygus (Black-Tipped Silver-Biddy) · C. mentalis (Heavy-Jawed Kingfish) · C. nobilis (White Travally) · C. oblongus (Oblique-Banded Trevally) · C. orthogrammus (Yellow-Spotted Trevally) · C. otrynter (Threadfin Jack) · C. papuensis (Brassey Trevally) · C. paraspistes (Shortfinned Trevally) · C. plagiotaenia (Obliquebanded Trevally) · C. praeustus (Brown-Backed Trevally) · C. punctatus (Summer Stonebrass) · C. radiatus (Fringe-Finned Trevally) · C. rhonchus (Ten-Finned Horse Mackerel) · C. ruber (Blue Striped Cavalla) · C. russelli (Russell's Mackerel Scad) · C. secundus (Cottonmouth Kingfish) · C. sem (African Jack) · C. senegallus (Senegal Jack) · C. sexfasciatus (Six Banded Trevally) · C. stellatus (Starry Trevally) · C. symmetricus (Pacific Jack Mackerel) · C. tille (Tille Trevally) · C. trachurus japonicus (Japanese Horse Mackerel) · C. trachurus mediterraneus (Mediterranean Horse Mackerel) · C. uii (Onion Kingfish) · C. uraspis (Bassett-Hulls Trevally) · C. vari (Duskyfin Crevalle) · C. vinctus (Cocinero (FB))

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Further Reading

• A catalog of the fishes of Formosa. By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie institute, 1909. url p. 178.
• A catalog of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan: based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter / by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1907?] url p. 178, p. 179.
• A list of the fishes of Hawaii, with notes and descriptions of new species, by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 39.
• A list of the fishes of Hawaii: with notes and descriptions of new species / by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 39.
• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 144, p. 34.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 505, p. 505, p. 515, p. 515, p. 516, p. 669, p. 86, p. 88.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1958 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 8.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 230.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 14, p. 14, p. 231, p. 442, p. 450, p. 65.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 20.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 20.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 233, p. 732.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 212, p. 235.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 351, p. 380, p. 440, p. 491, p. 530.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 1, p. 110, p. 18, p. 4, p. 54, p. 75, p. 76, p. 78, p. 95.
• Fishery leaflet / United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, url p. 4.
• Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1925. url p. 25, p. 32.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 115, p. 14, p. 15, p. 17, p. 18, p. 20.
• Fishes of the Philippine Islands / by Barton Warren Evermann and Alvin Seale. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1907. url p. 65.
• Fishes of the islands of Luzon and Panay / by David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1907? url p. 14.
• Hawaiian fishes; a handbook of the fishes found among the islands of the central Pacific ocean, by Spencer Wilkie Tinker. .. illustrated by Gordon S. C. Chun and Y. Oda. Honolulu, Hawaii, Tongg publishing company, 1944. url p. 184.
• Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 4 1906-1911 Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url p. 178, p. 179.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 15.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 74, p. 74.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 74.
• Ontogeny and systematics of fishes: based on an international symposium dedicated to the memory of Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom / sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Dept. of Commerce. [New York?]: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, c1984. url p. 511, p. 528.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 357.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 16, p. 200, p. 241, p. 36, p. 5, p. 531, p. 687.
• Report on a collection of marine fishes from North Borneo. 36 1957 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 358.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 10, p. 11.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 300.
• The fishery resources of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species / Manila?: s.n., ca. 1909 - ca. 1912 url , .
• The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon / by Francis Day. London: B. Quaritch, [1875]-1878. url p. 216.
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 231, p. 442, p. 450.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 106.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Dominici-Arosemena, A., Larson, H.K., Molina, H., Robertson, R. & Smith-Vaniz, B. 2010. Caranx sexfasciatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Smith-Vaniz, William F. (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: iziko South African Museum - Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset (First Semester of 1991) (AfrOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Marine and Coastal Management - Linefish Dataset (Second Semester of 1997) (AfrOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNPE/Coleccion Nacional de Peces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 122866
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-29766
• Fishbase Species ID: 1917
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13529401
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 168620
• IUCN ID: 197910
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 100789

Footnotes

1. Smith-Vaniz, W.F. (1995). Carangidae. Jureles, pámpanos, cojinúas, zapateros, cocineros, casabes, macarelas, chicharros, jorobados, medregales, pez pilota. p. 940-986. In W. Fischer, F. Krupp, W. Schneider, C. Sommer, K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) ... [back]
2. Allen, G.R. (1991). Field guide to the freshwater fishes of New Guinea. Christensen Research Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea. [back]
3. Bagnis, R., P. Mazellier, J. Bennett and E. Christian (1984). Poissons de Polynésie, 5th Edition. Société Nouvelle des Editions du Pacifique, Elysées, France. [back]
4. Dominici-Arosemena, A., Larson, H.K., Molina, H., Robertson, R. & Smith-Vaniz, B. 2010. Caranx sexfasciatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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