THE JACK FAMILY Carangidae


CREVALLE JACK Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766)

DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE: Crevalle jacks are found from Nova Scotia to Uruguay, but are most common south of Cape Cod. In Massachusetts, juveniles have been found in freshwaters of the Buzzard Bay drainage but might be expected in the Cape Cod, Taunton, Narragansett Bay, and Islands systems.


from: An Annotated Working List of the Inland Fishes of Massachusetts. © 1996. K.E. Hartel (hartel@mcz.harvard.edu), D.B. Halliwell (arcsys@mint.net) and A.E. Launer (aelauner@leland.stanford.edu).