Pseudocaranx is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae, the jacks, trevallies, scads, and pompanos. They occur in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific.[3]
| Pseudocaranx | |
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| White Trevally (juveniles) (P. dentex) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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]
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| Synonyms[2] | |
Species
editFour recognized species are placed 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 many 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
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Pseudocaranx". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Carangidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pseudocaranx". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudocaranx dentex". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). Pseudocaranx "Species in the genus 'Pseudocaranx'". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ 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.
