Pseudocaranx

Pseudocaranx is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae, the jacks, trevallies, scads and pompanos. They occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean and in the Indo-Pacific.[3]

Pseudocaranx
White Trevally (juveniles) (P. dentex)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Carangidae
Subfamily: Caranginae
Genus: Pseudocaranx
Bleeker, 1863
Type species
Scomber dentex
Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Citula Cuvier, 1816
  • Longirostrum Wakiya, 1924
  • Usa Whitley, 1927
  • Usacaranx Whitley, 1931

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[3]

  • Pseudocaranx chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) (Juan Fernandez trevally)
  • Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (White trevally)
  • Pseudocaranx dinjerra Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2006
  • Pseudocaranx wrighti (Whitley, 1931) (Skipjack trevally)

Fishbase does not treat Pseudocaranx georgianus as a valid species, treating it as a junior synonym of P. dentex but notes that may other authorities treat it as a valid species.[4] Catalog of Fishes and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species treat it as a valid species.[5][6]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Pseudocaranx". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  2. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Carangidae genera". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Pseudocaranx in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Pseudocaranx dentex" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  5. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). Pseudocaranx "'Pseudocaranx' species". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  6. Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Carpenter, K.E.; Larson, H.; Matsuura, K. & Motomura, H. (2018). "Pseudocaranx georgianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T20434340A115606283. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T20434340A115606283.en.


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