Carangoides plagiotaenia Barcheek trevally

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lexID:

4521 

Scientific:

Carangoides plagiotaenia 

German:

Wangenstreifen-Stachelmakrele 

English:

Barcheek trevally 

Category:

Jacks and Pompanos 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Carangoides (Genus) > plagiotaenia (Species) 

Initial determination:

Bleeker, 1857 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Australia, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Egypt, Fiji, Guam, Gulf of Aden, India, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Red Sea, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, the Andaman Sea, the Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Seychelles, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam 

Size:

11.81" - 19.69" (30cm - 50cm) 

Temperature:

75.2 °F - 82.4 °F (24°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Fish (little fishes), Predatory 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Carangoides armatus
• 
  Carangoides bajad
  Orangenfleck-Stachelmakrele
• 
  Carangoides bartholomaei
  Stachelmakrele
• Carangoides chrysophrys
• Carangoides ciliarius
• 
  Carangoides coeruleopinnatus
  Stachelmakrele
• Carangoides dinema
• Carangoides equula
• 
  Carangoides ferdau
  Querstreifen-Stachelmakrele
• 
  Carangoides fulvoguttatus
  Gelbfleckenmakrele
• Carangoides gymnostethus
• Carangoides hedlandensis
• Carangoides humerosus
• Carangoides malabaricus
• Carangoides oblongus
• Carangoides orthogrammus
• Carangoides otrynter
• 
  Carangoides plagiotaenia
  Wangenstreifen-Stachelmakrele
• Carangoides praeustus
• Carangoides talamparoides
• Alle anzeigen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2012-08-07 22:06:55 

Last edit:

2012-08-07 22:06:55 

Husbandry

Bleeker, 1857

Distribution:
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Seychelles; Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ponape [=Pohnpei], Fiji, Tonga and the Marshall Islands.

Found in shallow water along edges of steep outer reef and lagoon slopes. Found singly or in groups.

Distinct black bar on the edge of the preopercle, and nearly, scaled breast.

Synonymised taxa
Caranx brevicarinatus Klunzinger, 1871
Caranx compressus Day, 1871
Caranx plagiotaenia (Bleeker, 1857)
Caranx vomerinus Playfair, 1867

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