Island Jack

description

Island Jack, Island Trevally, or Yellow-spotted Trevally. To 75 cm (29.5 in) TL (Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Cheju Island, South Korea (Kim et al. 1999); in eastern Pacific, Todos Santos (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.), Cabo San Lucas (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and barely into Gulf of California north of Cabo San Lucas (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.) to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2015); Isla Socorro, Isla San Benedicto, and other oceanic sites (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995). Nearshore; marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: 3 – 190 m (10 – 623 ft) (min.: Ralston et al. 1986; max.: Mundy 2005). Sometimes seen as Caranx orthogrammus (e. g., Nelson et al. 2004), but most researchers classify the species in Carangoides (Eschmeyer 1998 and online editions).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

distribution

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 5. — General distribution: East Africa, Seychelles and La Réunion (Mascarenes) east to Hawaiian Islands and Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico), north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. Found in small groups in coastal water including estuaries, 3 – 168 m depth. Marine.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

materials_examined

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Lihir Group, Namatamai District, New Ireland by Fry et al. (2006: 129); specimens photographed at St. KVG 25 (off southeastern New Hanover) by Serge Andréfouët on 22 Aug. 2014.

Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records