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Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833
BLUEFIN TREVALLY
Blue-fin Trevally; Blue-finned Trevally; Spotted Trevally; Caranx stellatus Eydoux and Souleyet, 1848; Caranx valenciennei Castelnau, 1873

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Caranx melampygus
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Caranx melampygus
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Overview
Main identification features
  • head angular
  • deep, compressed
  • blue + black dots
  • dorsal, anal and tail fins : blue
Body deep, compressed; head profile angular; dorsal rays VIII+I, 21-24; anal rays II+I,17-20; gill rakers on first arch (excluding rudiments) 5-9 + 17-20; lateral line with pronounced anterior arch; straight part of lateral line with 27-42 strong scutes; breast completely scaled.

Head and dorsal half of body brassy, suffused with blue and covered with small blue-black spots (forming at about 20 cm length and increasing in number with size); second dorsal, anal, and caudal fins electric blue; pectoral fins of juveniles yellow.

Maximum size to 100 cm; at least 10.8 kg.

Habitat: solitary or in small schools near reefs. Juveniles sometimes in estuaries.

Depth: 0-230 m.

Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Americas; the tip of Baja and the mouth of the Gulf of California to Ecuador and the offshore islands.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 230 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: bony fishes; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=28; Southern limit=-2; Western limit=-115; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=30; Longitudinal range=37.
Egg Type: Pelagic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Reef Associated.
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; Water column; Reef (rock &/or coral).
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 100 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;


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References
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  • 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.
  • Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741.
  • Castri-Aguirre, J.L., Espinoza-Pérez, H. and Schmitter-Soto, J.J., 2002., Lista sitemática, biogeográfica y ecológica de la ictiofauna estuarino lagunar y vicaria de México. En: Lozano-Vilano, M. L. (Ed.). Libro Jubilar en Honor al Dr. Salvador Contreras Balderas., Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo León:117-142.
  • Castro-Aguirre, J.L., 1999., Ictiofauna estuarino-lagunar y vicaria de México., Editorial Limusa S.A. de C.V.: 1-629pp.
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  • 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, D.S., 1895., The fishes of Sinaloa., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2), 5:377-514.
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