Carangidae

black jack

Caranx lugubris

Carangid Fish in New Caledonia

• Black
• Tropical
• Globally widespread
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Central America and the Caribbean
• East Asia
• North America
• Oceania
• South America
• Fusiform
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Caranx lugubris, the black jack, black trevally, black kingfish, coal fish or black ulua, is a species of large ocean fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species has a circumtropical distribution, found in oceanic, offshore waters of the tropical zones of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The species is particularly prevalent around offshore islands such as the Caribbean islands in the Atlantic, Hawaii and French Polynesia in the Pacific and the Seychelles and Maldives in the Indian Ocean.