Caranx

Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 1-48 : 11

publication ID

z01523p001

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2202520B-A3E7-492D-A932-14463CD6DAF9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6240630

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7AB52041-5CFD-2F89-B6D1-AC52C1A21D88

treatment provided by

Thomas

scientific name

Caranx
status

 

Caranx View in CoL View at ENA   ZBK n. sp.

This undescribed species resembling C. hippos (Linnaeus, 1766) is being described by W. Smith-Vaniz and K. Carpenter (in press). It is characterized by a conspicuously white anal fin edge and large adults have a rather deep body and long dorsal and anal fin lobes. A large adult was photographed near Bom Bom Islet, Príncipe, in 15 m depth (Figure 11) and observed by CLS and PW at Diogo Vaz, São Tomé, in 25-30 m depth. Elsewhere this species has been recorded from Mauritania to Angola and from Ascension Island (SmithVaniz, pers. comm.). The species was identified from photos (only a tissue sample was collected from a specimen from São Tomé fish market).

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