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Caranx

WoRMS 125936ITIS 168605GBIF 2390749key worms:125936
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168605 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Caranx crysos

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Caranx
Photo · César Meiners Mandujano · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Caranx is a genus of tropical to subtropical marine fishes in the jack family Carangidae, commonly known as jacks, trevallies and kingfishes. They are moderate- to large-sized, deep-bodied fishes which are distinguished from other carangid genera by specific gill raker, fin ray and dentition characteristics.W CalCOFI holds 137 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2008, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

137
observations
137
records
36
sampling events
1959–2008
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 36 obs · 36 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Caranx · code 501

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125936%22