Species: Carangoides orthogrammus, Island trevally, Island jack
Carangoides orthogrammus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
Island jack, Island trevally
Body deep, compressed; head profile convex; both jaws with a band of teeth, at least at the front; gill rakers on first arch (excluding rudiments) 8-10 + 20-23; dorsal rays VIII + I, 29-32; anal rays II + I, 24-36; short dorsal and anal fin lobes; dorsal and anal fins not followed by finlets; pectoral fins longer than head; straight rear part of lateral line with 21-34 scales, followed by 19-31 small scutes (large, hard spiny scales); isolated scaleless areas on breast before pelvics and on base of pectoral fins.
Generally silvery, brassy to greenish blue on back and whitish on ventral parts; adults with several, relatively large elliptical yellow spots on side.
Size: attains 71 cm.
Habitat: around reefs
Depth: 3-170 m.
Widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Americas; in the eastern Pacific known from the tip of Baja, Clipperton, the Revillagigedos, Cocos, Malpelo, Galapagos and Tres Marias islands (central Mexico).
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Water column
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Corals
- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans)
- TEP non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- All species
- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 71
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 170
