Horse-eye jack
Caranx latus
Agassiz, 1831
Description:
Body silvery, with a yellow, deeply forked, tail. Dorsal and upper tail fin usually with dark tips. A black spot posteriorly on the gill cover is small or absent. The scutes of the body tend to be dusky or blackish. Pectoral fin pointed, without a spot (C. latus). The young have broad blackish bars on the body.
Size up to 1 m.
Habitat:
A pelagic schooling fish, usually found in offshore reefs. Juveniles are encountered along shores of sandy beaches, also over mud bottoms.
Distribution:
Common to occasional Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.
Remarks:
The related Crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) has a blackish blotch on the pectoral fin. |
