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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Caranx caballus

Green jack

WoRMS 273271ITIS 168611GBIF 2390774key worms:273271
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168611 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Caranx crysos
Green jack55 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Caranx caballus
Photo · Andy Blackledge · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The green jack, also known as the horse jack, is an abundant species of coastal marine fish in the jack family Carangidae.W CalCOFI holds 75 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2008, as larva.R

75
observations
75
records
75
sampling events
1959–2008
years
1
datasets
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 75 obs · 75 events · 1959–2008 · larva
    name used: Caranx caballus Green jack · code 502

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:273271%22