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Caranx lugubris Poey, 1860 
AphiaID: 126805

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Caranx (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Caranx Lacepède, 1801
Synonymised
taxa		  Caranx ascensionis Cuvier, 1833
 Caranx frontalis Poey, 1860
 Caranx ishikawai Wakiya, 1924
 Caranx tenebrosus Jordan, Evermann & Wakiya, 1927
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English black jack  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Cargados Carajos [details]
Chagos [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Reunion [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: An occasionally schooling species which inhabits steep outer reef slopes and offshore banks. Oceanic, most common along steep drop-offs, from 150-356 m depth, around islands (Ref. 7251). Regarded as deep-swimming jacks (Ref. 4795). Feeds on fish at night (Ref. 5213). Marketed fresh and dried/salted (Ref. 9283). [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Image 
Caranx lugubris
Caranx lugubris
added on 2010-02-17 - author: Collection VLIZ ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126805
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Caranx lugubris Poey, 1860. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126805 on 2013-05-24
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