Species: Caranx melampygus, Bluefin trevally, Bluefin crevalle-jack
head angular
Caranx melampygus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1833
Bluefin trevally, Bluefin crevalle-jack
Body deep, compressed; head profile angular; adipose eyelid not well developed; 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) 5-9 + 17-21; margin of body at rear of gill chamber without papillae; pectoral fins longer than head; dorsal rays VIII + I, 21-24; anal rays II + I, 17-20; dorsal and anal fin with long front lobes; dorsal and anal fins not followed by finlets; lateral line with a pronounced anterior arch, straight part with 27-42 strong scutes; breast completely scaled.
Head and dorsal half of body brassy, suffused with blue and covered with small blue-black spots (forming at about 20 cm length and increasing in number with size); second dorsal, anal, and caudal fins electric blue; pectoral fins of juveniles yellow.
Maximum size to 100 cm; at least 10.8 kg.
Habitat: solitary or in small schools near reefs. Juveniles sometimes in estuaries.
Depth: 0-230 m.
Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Americas; the tip of Baja and the mouth of the Gulf of California; Costa Rica to Ecuador and the offshore islands.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom + water column
- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Mid Water
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Corals
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- TEP non-endemic
- All species
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- Regional Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- All species
- Island (s)
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 230
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Length Max
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- 100
