Caranx hippos
Diagnosis
Diagnosis_Genus: Caranx Lacépède. Two dorsal fins; no small fins above or below the tail; the sides of the tail lengthwise statements keel, or a small fin composed with two stings and a membrane in front of the anal fin.
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Diagnosis_Species: Scomber hippos Linnaeus. S. pinnulis unitis, operculis postice macula nigra. B.7. D. 7, 22. P. 22. V. 6. A. 22/I0. C.30. Habitat in Carolina. D. Garden. Dentes unica ferie: anticis 2 majoribus. Linea lateralis in medio valde declinata, postice carinata subspinosa. P. Dprsalis posterior rubra. Ventralis Analisque lutea. Spinae ante Analem remotae.
Body_male_length: 75 cm
Body_max_length: 124 cm
Body_male_length_maturity: 55 cm
Body_female_length_maturity: 66 cm
Max_weight: 25 kg
Eggs_diameter: 0.7-0.9 mm
Newly_hatched_larvae: 1.6-1.8 mm
Etymology
Caranx: French, carangue, the name of a Caribbean fish.
Type species
The type species of the genus Caranx is Caranx carangua (Lacepède 1801) (Animalbase).
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type locality: Carolina [South Carolina, U.S.A.].
Ecology
Habitat: Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to Angola, including the western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and northern Gulf of Mexico to Uruguay, including the Greater Antilles. Absent from eastern Lesser Antilles.
Habitat: oceanic
Habitat: coastal
Substrate: water
Salinity: brackish
Temperature_adults: 27°C
Depth: 1 - 350 m
Migratory: yes. Diel vertical migration.
Causality_of_migration: temperature (Young fish dispersed north by currents in the eastern Atlantic are known to migrate back to more tropical waters before the onset of winter; however, if the fish fail to migrate, mass mortalities occur as the temperature falls below the species' tolerance limits)
Temporality_of_migration: seasonal (before beginning of winter)
Life cycle
Generation_time: more than 3 years
Fertility_period: Seasonal (during spring and summer, March to September, South of Florida), (during spring, April to May, Cuba)
Spawning_method: External fertilization in the water column (in the southeastern Atlantic coast and in the Gulf Stream, including any associated currents)
Feeding behaviour
Mode of locomotion
Original description
Reference(s)
Attached phylogeny
Observation site(s)
SYMBIONTS
Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Amyloodinium ocellatum | New York Aquarium |
The morphology, cytology and life-history of Oodinium ocellatum Brown, a dinoflagellate parasite on marine fishes. Zoologica, N. Y. 21:129-161. (1936) |
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Amyloodinium ocellatum | Gulf Coast Research Laboratory |
Studies on Amyloodinium ocellatum (Dinoflagellata) in Mississippi Sound: Natural and Experimental Hosts. Gulf Research Reports 6:403-413. (1980) |