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family Carangidae

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Noun1.family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
Carangidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
Caranx, genus Caranx - type genus of the Carangidae
jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
Elagatis, genus Elagatis - a genus of Carangidae
genus Oligoplites, Oligoplites - leatherjackets
Alectis, genus Alectis - a genus of Carangidae
genus Selene, Selene - a genus of Carangidae
genus Seriola, Seriola - a genus of Carangidae
genus Trachinotus, Trachinotus - a genus of Carangidae
genus Naucrates, Naucrates - a genus of Carangidae
scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
genus Trachurus, Trachurus - the scads (particularly horse mackerels)
genus Selar, Selar - big-eyed scad
Decapterus, genus Decapterus - scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution
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Jacks and pompanos of the family Carangidae are represented by 33 genera and approximately 140 species found in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world (Helfman et al.
Development and growth of hatchery-reared larval Florida pompano ... by Riley, Kenneth L.; Weirich, Charles R.; Cerino, David / Fishery Bulletin
Although spawning behavior has been observed for many reef fish in the wild (Wicklund, 1969; Smith, 1972; Johannes, 1978; Sadovy et ah, 1994; Aguilar Perera and Aguilar Davila, 1996), few records exist of observations on the courtship or natural spawning for the commercially important family Carangidae (jacks) (yon Westernhagen, 1974; Johannes, 1981; Sala et al.
Courtship and spawning behaviors of carangid species in Belize by Graham, Rachel T.; Castellanos, Daniel W. / Fishery Bulletin
The family Carangidae supports a diverse array of economically important fisheries in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide.
Age, growth, and reproduction of permit (Trachinotus falcatus) in ... by Crabtree, Roy E.; Hood, Peter B.; Snodgrass, Derke / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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