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  • body plain, yellowish; fins yellow
    Caranx bartholomaei, Yellow Jack
    18-21 lower gill rakers
  • elongate
    operculum - black spot
    C tips black
    Caranx crysos, Blue Runner, Blue Runner Jack
    LL scutes 46-56
  • oblong
    operculum - black spot
    pectoral: black blotch
    Caranx hippos, Crevalle Jack
    chest & pectoral base scaleless
    LL scutes 23-25
  • eye large
    D lobe black
    rear LL scutes black
    C yellow
    Caranx latus, Horse-eye Jack
    LL scutes 32-39
  • deep, compressed
    head profile steep, angular
    dark grey; fins & LL scutes black
    lobes D & A: long
    Caranx lugubris, Black Jack
  • blue stripe: along top back to lower C lobe, with
    Caranx ruber, Bar Jack
    31-38 lower gill rakers