Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Carangidae; Caranx; Caranx melampygus; Yukon; Baja; Pacific; Milton; Jiménez; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605800; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605800

Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833. Bluefin Jack, Blue Trevally, or Bluefin Trevally. To 117 cm (46.1 in) FL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.); Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) to Isla Gorgona, Colombia (Franke and Acero 1993), including lower Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Nearshore; marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: surface (Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018), 1–230 m (3–754 ft) (min.: Laboute and Grandperrin 2000; max.: Ralston et al. 1986). A hybrid of this species and Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 was taken off Panama (Angulo et al. 2020). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 153, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008