Species: Caranx caballus, Green jack
Caranx caballus Günther, 1868
Green jack
Body moderately compressed, relatively slender; eye with well developed transparent eyelid; top jaw with an outer row of canines and an inner band of fine teeth; lower jaw with one row of teeth; gill rakers (excluding rudiments) 13-15 + 28-30; margin of body at rear of gill chamber without papillae; pectoral fins longer than head; dorsal rays VIII + I, 22-25; anal rays II + I, 18-21; dorsal and anal fins not followed by finlets; lateral line with a pronounced, but short anterior arch; scales on straight part of lateral line 0-7, followed by 45-56 strong scutes; breast completely scaled .
Light olive to dark bluish green on back, silvery grey to golden below; fins pale; black spot on gill cover; juveniles with about 7 dark bars on body.
Size: grows to at least 70 cm.
Habitat: a common, schooling species over soft bottoms.
Depth: 0-100 m.
Southern California to Chile, and all the offshore islands; occasionally recorded in abundance at Hawaii but not established there.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Bottom + water column
- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Freshwater
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- Sand & gravel
- Beach
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Central + East Pacific (but not West)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- All species
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Length Max
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- 70
