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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Jacks, Flatfishes, Barracudas, and Allies
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Caranx
Maximum length: 100 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Circumtropical. Western Indian Ocean: off Natal and East London in South Africa (Ref. 3197 , 11228 ); Reunion, Mauritius and Cargados Carajos (Ref. 33390 ); Seychelles (Ref. 10685 ). Western Pacific: southern Japan to New Caledonia. Recently reported from Tonga (Ref. 53797 ). Western Atlantic: Bermuda and the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Azores, Madeira, St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ), Ascension Island, Cape Verde, and Gulf of Guinea. Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico (including Revillagigedo Islands) to Costa Rica.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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