WoRMS taxon details
Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
AphiaID: 218404
AphiaID: 218404
| 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 |
Carangoides sexfasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (subsequent combination) Carangus marginatus Gill, 1863 Carangus rhabdotus Jenkins, 1903 Caranx belengerii Cuvier, 1833 Caranx butuanensis Seale, 1910 Caranx elacate Jordan & Evermann, 1903 Caranx flavocoeruleus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 Caranx forsteri Cuvier, 1833 Caranx fosteri Cuvier, 1833 Caranx marginatus (Gill, 1863) Caranx oshimai Wakiya, 1924 Caranx paraspistes Richardson, 1848 Caranx peronii Cuvier, 1833 Caranx sexfaciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 (misspelling) Caranx sexfaciatus elacate (Jordan & Evermann, 1903) Caranx sexfaciatus marginatus (Gill, 1863) Caranx tapeinosoma Bleeker, 1856 Caranx thompsoni Seale, 1905 Caranx xanthopygus Cuvier, 1833 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gazi Bay [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus nengai Rangnekar, Rangnekar & Murti, 1953 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus confusus Pillai, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus chiastos Lin & Ho, 2003 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (63 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (35 nucleotides; 32 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Occurs at temperatures ranging from 26° to 29°C. Inhabits deep lagoons channels, seaward reef waters, and occasionally enters rivers. Juveniles in estuaries. Remains in slow-moving schools in the passes or outside the reef during the day, then leaves the schools and feeds individually at night (Ref. 4795) on small fishes and crustaceans. Rarely netted. Marketed fresh, dried/salted (Ref. 9283) and frozen (Ref. 9987). Consumed broiled and baked (Ref. 9987). [details] Remark: Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. Known as C. marginatus Gill In tropical eastern Pacific in Randall <307>. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218404 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825. 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=218404 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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