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Carangidae
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads. It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes. Some authorities classify it as the only family within that order but molecular and anatomical studies indicate that there is a close relationship between this family and the five former Perciform families which make up the Carangiformes.
Caranginae
Caranginae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish from the family Carangidae which consists of 29 genera and 104 species.
Ceratoichthys pinnatiformis
Ceratoichthys is an extinct genus of lookdown-like prehistoric jackfish that lived during the late Ypresian epoch, of the Early Eocene. It contains a single species, C. pinnatiformis of Monte Bolca, Italy. It and Vomeropsis are the only known members of the extinct subfamily Vomeropsinae.
Eastmanalepes
Eastmanalepes (meaning "Eastman's scale) is an extinct genus of prehistoric jackfish known from the Eocene of Europe. It contains a single species, E. primaevus, known from the late Ypresian of the Monte Bolca site in Italy. It was originally described as a species of the jackfish genus Caranx, which it has a superficially similar outline to. However, it differs from Caranx, and almost all other jackfish, in that it has very large, very pronounced scutes along its lateral line. According to Bannikov, E. primaevus is probably more related to the extinct jackfish genera, Eothynnus and Teratichth