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Carangoides orthogrammus (Jordan &. Gilbert, 1882)
THICKLIP TREVALLY
Blue Trevally; False Bluefin Trevally; Island Trevally; Yellow-spot Trevally; Yellowspot Trevally; Carangoides fulvoguttatus Forsskål, 1775; Carangoides laticaudis Alleyne and Macleay, 1877; Caranx orthogrammus Jordan and Gilbert, 1882

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Carangoides orthogrammus
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Carangoides orthogrammus

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Overview
Main identification features
  • oval shape
  • flank: ~6 oval yellow spots
Body deep, compressed; head profile convex; dorsal rays VIII + I, 29-32; anal rays II + I, 24-36; gill rakers on first arch (excluding rudiments) 8-10 + 20-23; lateral line anteriorly with very slight arch, the curved part slightly longer than or equal to straight part; scales on straight part of lateral line 21-34, followed by 19-31 small scutes; distinguishing features include short dorsal and anal fin lobes, and isolated scaleless areas on breast and 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).


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo); Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap).
Depth Range Max: 170 m.
Depth Range Min: 3 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=25; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-82; Latitudinal range=27; Longitudinal range=33.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Pelagic.
Global Endemism: All Pacific (West + Central + East); Indo-Pacific only (Indian + Pacific Oceans); TEP non-endemic; "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific); All species.
Habitat: Corals; Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Estuary; Water column.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 71 cm.
Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); Eastern Pacific non-endemic; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Marine; Brackish.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Mid Water; Near Bottom; Bottom + water column;


Names
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References
  • Allen , G.R. and Robertson, D.R., 1997., An Annotated Checklist of the fishes of Clipperton Atoll, Tropical Eastern Pacific., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 45:813-843.
  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L. and Balart, E.F., 2002., La ictiofauna de las islas Revillagigedos y sus relaciones zoogeograficas, con comentarios acerca de su origen y evolucion. En: Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (Ed.). Libro Jubilar en Honor al Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León:153-170.
  • Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
  • Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1882., Notes on a collection of fishes made by Lieut. Henry E. Nichols, U.S.N., on the west coast of Mexico, with descriptions of new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 4:225-233.
  • Jordan , and McGregor,., 1898., List of fishes collected at the Revillagigedo archipelago and neighboring islands., Rept. U.S. Fisheries Comm., 24:271-284.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Ricker, K.E., 1959., Fishes collected from the Revillagigedo Islands during the 1954-1958 cruises of the "Marijean."., Univ. Brit. Columbia Inst. Fish., Mus. Contrib., 4:10pp.
  • Robertson , D.R. and Allen, G.A., 1996., Zoogeography of the shorefish fauna of Clipperton Atoll., Coral Reefs, 15:121-131.
  • Snodgrass , R. E. and Heller, E., 1905., Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-1899. XVII. Shorefishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos Island., Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 6:333-427.
  • Walker, B. W. and Baldwin, W. J., 1964., Provisional check list of fishes of the Revillagigedo islands., 18 pp.

Acknowledgements

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