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Caranx
melampygus
Cuvier, 1833
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| Hawaiian Name:
'Omilu Common Name: Bluefin Trevally Distribution: Throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific. |
| Remarks: Highly prized as gamefish and foodfish wherever they occur, jacks are, indeed, also developed predators in the marine realm. This species is one of the most abundant of the larger jacks in Hawaiian waters. |
| Photo © 1997 by Richard L. Pyle This page last revised 09 June 1997 |