Species: Caranx latus, Horse-eye Jack

Caranx latus Agassiz in Spix & Agassiz, 1831

Horse-eye Jack

Body moderately compressed in adults; eye large; top jaw reaching to under rear edge of eye; top jaw with an outer row of strong canines and an inner band of fine teeth; lower jaw with one row of teeth; 16-18 lower gill rakers; margin of body at rear of gill chamber without papillae; pectoral fins longer than head; dorsal (VIII + I, 19-22) and anal (II+I, 16-18), front lobes of both fins distinctly raised; no finlets after 2nd dorsal and anal fins; tail base slender; tail strongly forked; straight rear part (but not curved front part) of lateral line with 32-39 scutes (large, hard spiny scales); tail base with a pair of keels on each side.

Body dark blue to bluish-grey above, silvery white to golden below; dorsal fin lobe black; rear lateral-line scutes may be dark to black; tail fin yellow; sometimes an indistinct dark spot on the corner of the operculum, and a dark smudge on the lower pectoral fin; juveniles with ~5 dark bars on body.

Reaches 101 cm, 13.4 kg, to 13 years.

Over soft and seagrass bottoms, also round reefs; in brackish water and enters freshwater.

Depth range: 0-151 m.

Both sides of the Atlantic; New Jersey to central Brazil.