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

subfamily

Caranginae

Caranginae

Includes
13 native 10 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Kingfishes 5 native
  • Lookdowns and Moonfishes 2 native
  • Mackerel Scads 2 native
  • Bumpers 1 native
  • Jack Mackerels 1 native
  • Bigeyed Scads 1 native
  • Cobblerfishes 1 native
  • Atule
  • Selaroides
  • Gnathanodon
  • Hemicaranx
  • Turrum
  • Ferdauia
  • Island Jacks
  • Craterognathus
  • Pseudocaranx
  • Atropus
  • Uraspis
  • Parastromateus

Range

United States

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

Most observed native Caranginae All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Atlantic Crevalle Jack Caranx hippos 2,515 observations
  • Blue Runner Caranx crysos 2,395 observations
  • Yellow Jack Caranx bartholomaei 1,066 observations
  • Lookdown Selene vomer 860 observations
  • Bigeye Scad Selar crumenophthalmus 754 observations
  • Green Jack Caranx caballus 546 observations
  • Atlantic Moonfish Selene setapinnis 449 observations
  • African Pompano Alectis ciliaris 426 observations
  • Mackerel Scad Decapterus macarellus 393 observations
  • Pacific Jack Mackerel Trachurus symmetricus 332 observations
  • Cigar Minnow Decapterus punctatus 314 observations
  • Rough Scad Trachurus lathami 52 observations

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