Actinopterygii (Gigaclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Teleostei (Subclass) > Carangiformes (Order) > Carangoidei (Suborder) > Carangidae (Family) > Caranginae (Subfamily) > Caranx (Genus)

Carangue cuivrée, Carangue bronze, Carangue pièce, Carangue mouchetée, Carangue à points noirs, Brassey trevally, Brassy kingfish, Brassy trevally, Green back trevally, Papuan trevally, Tea-leaf trevally, Messingtrevalle, Brons koningvis, Jurel bronceado, Xaréu bronzeado, Onihara-aji, オニヒラアジ, 瓜仔, 巴布亞鰺,

Synonymes
Caranx celetus (Smith, 1968)
Caranx regularis (Garman, 1903)

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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 21-22; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 16-19 (usually: 17-18); Pectoral fin rays: 20-21; Gill rakers: 7-9 + 19-21; Curved part of lateral line scales: 53-61; Straight part of lateral line scales: 31-39 (usually: 34-37), strong scutes; Lateral line moderately arched, becoming straight below 6-7th ray of second dorsal fin. Vertebrae: 10 + 14. Body oblong and compressed; Dorsal profile moderately convex to second dorsal fin, ventral profile slightly convex. Breast scaleless ventrally, usually with small patch of prepelvic scales. Adipose eyelid weakly developed. Max. length: 88.0 cm TL, common length: 55.0 cm FL. Max. published weight: 6.4 kg. Max. age reported: 3.5 years. Depth range: 1 - 50 m.

Color
Adults with head and body brassy to yellowish green above, silvery below; A conspicuous pale spot, approximately diameter of pupil, on shoulder just behind posterodorsal margin of opercle; Small black spots (forming at about 25 cm fork length) scattered on body above lateral line, becoming more numerous with age; Caudal fin with upper lobe uniformly dusky, on lower limb of first gill arch lobe dusky to bright yellow with a distinct, narrow white border; Other fins pale to dusky yellow; Anal and pelvic fins also with narrow white distal margins.

Etymology
Caranx: from French, caranx = carangue, the name of a Caribbean fish. Philibert Commerson (1727-1773) was a French explorer and naturalist, he says he derived the name caranx from the Greek word meaning head, and justifies this etymology, because these fishes, according to him, prevail by the head (quia capite prœvalent), and because the saurel (se. trachurus) exerts a kind of tyranny on the fishes of the coasts (principatum et tyrannidem exercet inter littorales pisces). These are singular reasons, and one has all the more reason to be surprised that a man such as Commerson had recourse to them, as he had certainly not been looking for his name so far. More than a century before him, the French colonists of the West Indies called the species of this kind that they caught on their coasts carangue: We can be sure of this by the testimony of Dutertre, Rochefort, Plumier and Labat; And as there is no appearance that the first and ignorant inhabitants of our islands had the idea of making up a Greek name for an American fish, there is every reason to believe that they simply corrupted into carangue the name of acarauna, used in Brazil and among the Spanish and Portuguese colonists for several chetodons and other very compressed fish. The name of carangue is nowadays general among our French sailors for fishes of the present kind that are caught in the torrid zone, and especially for those of a high shape; And Commerson himself tells us that no other name is used at Isle-de-France. It even seems, according to Duhamel, that this name was brought to Europe by sailors, and that in some places of our coasts it is given to the ordinary saurel; Finally, Barbot already has it, and disguises it as corango. Histoire naturelle des poissons par Mr Georges Cuvier et par Mr Valenciennes Tome neuvième, 1833.
papuensis: name from the type locality, Hall Sound, Papua New Guinea.
Original description: Caranx papuensis Alleyne & MacLeay, 1877 - Type locality: Hall Sound, Papua New Guinea.

Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marshall Islands and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan), south to Timor Sea (Western Australia), Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga.

Biology
Inhabit lagoon and seaward reefs, occasionally entering rivers. Juveniles found in estuaries. Swims high over bottom. Solitary or in schools. Feed primarily on fishes. Excellent food fish, ciguatoxic, it is not recommended to consume individuals over 2 kg. Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding. Size at maturity is estimated to be between 15.0 and 17.0 cm. Age at maturity is estimated at 18 months. Hybrid with Caranx sexfasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) found in Hawaii.