Carangidae, Rafinesque, 1815

Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, European Journal of Taxonomy 73, pp. 1-73 : 50

Family Carangidae

The limits of carangid genera are in many cases poorly defined. This is in part a consequence of some fundamental problems in the delimitation of generic and sub-generic taxa within the family ( Gunn 1990). A particular case in point is the separation of the large genus Caranx Lacepède into a series of smaller genera including Carangoides Bleeker , Selar Bleeker , Alepes Swainson , Atule Jordan & Jordan, Decapterus Sleeker , Pseudocaranx Bleeker , Ulua Jordan & Snyder, Uraspis Bleeker and Caranx (sensu stricto) ( Gunn 1990).