Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 153

Caranx melampygus Cuvier, 1833 .

Bluefin Jack, Blue Trevally, or Bluefin Trevally. To 117 cm (46.1 in) FL ( Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.); Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) to Isla Gorgona, Colombia ( Franke and Acero 1993), including lower Gulf of California (Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995) and such offshore islands as Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Nearshore; marine and brackish waters ( Koeda et al. 2016); depth: surface ( Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018), 1–230 m (3–754 ft) (min.: Laboute and Grandperrin 2000; max.: Ralston et al. 1986). A hybrid of this species and Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 was taken off Panama ( Angulo et al. 2020).