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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Spiny-rayed Fishes
  6. Jacks, Flounders, Barracudas, and Allies

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Jacks, Flounders, Barracudas, and Allies

Carangiformes

Includes
66 native 25 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Flatfishes 30 native
  • Jacks, Remoras, and Allies 27 native
  • Snooks, Barracudas, and Allies 5 native
  • Moonfishes and Billfishes 4 native
  • Polynemoidei
  • Archerfishes and Beachsalmon

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native jacks, flounders, barracudas, and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Sharksucker Echeneis naucrates 3,172 observations
  • Atlantic Crevalle Jack Caranx hippos 2,515 observations
  • Blue Runner Caranx crysos 2,395 observations
  • Common Dolphinfish Coryphaena hippurus 2,047 observations
  • Summer Flounder Paralichthys dentatus 1,818 observations
  • Starry Flounder Platichthys stellatus 1,648 observations
  • Winter Flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus 1,476 observations
  • California Halibut Paralichthys californicus 1,369 observations
  • Yellow Jack Caranx bartholomaei 1,066 observations
  • Speckled Sanddab Citharichthys stigmaeus 1,029 observations
  • Southern Flounder Paralichthys lethostigma 1,026 observations
  • Yellowtail Kingfish Seriola lalandi 984 observations
  • Lookdown Selene vomer 860 observations
  • Hogchoker Trinectes maculatus 835 observations
  • Rock Sole Lepidopsetta bilineata 807 observations
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