Carangidae

bar jack

Caranx ruber

Dark stripe along back to tail

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• North America
• South America
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

The bar jack (Caranx ruber), also known as the carbonero, cojinúa, red jack, blue-striped cavalla or passing jack, is a common species of inshore marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The bar jack is distributed through the western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey and Bermuda in the north to Venezuela and possibly Brazil in the south, with the largest population in the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies. The bar jack is most easily distinguished from similar jacks by the dark horizontal bar which runs along the back and down the caudal fin.