Hemicaranx
Sign in to saveHemicaranx is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Carangidae, the jacks, pompanos, scads and trevallies, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCarangidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 52
- Family
- Carangidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, ITESM, INHS, USNM, ANSP, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guyana, Nicaragua, Indonesia
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- Parent taxon
- Carangidae
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Hemicaranx is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Carangidae, the jacks, pompanos, scads and trevallies, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
==Species== There are currently four recognized species in this genus: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || Hemicaranx amblyrhynchus (G. Cuvier, 1833) ||Bluntnose jack || western Atlantic Ocean |- | || Hemicaranx bicolor (Günther, 1860 ) ||Bicolor jack || eastern Atlantic Ocean around Africa. |- | || Hemicaranx leucurus (Günther, 1864 ) ||Yellowfin jack || southern tip of Baja California, Mexico and southern Gulf of California to Ecuador. |- | || Hemicaranx zelotes C. H. Gilbert, 1898 ||Blackfin jack ||Eastern Central Pacific: Baja California, Mexico to Peru |- |}
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