Jack
Caranx hippos
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Caranx
Where to Find
Found in 42 diving areas across 27 countries and 7 regions.
- Abaco, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 136 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 3 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 9 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 30 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 31 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 2 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 7 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 10 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 12 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 7 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 3 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 3 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 2 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 96 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 93 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Corsica, France - 1 records
- Huatulco, Mexico - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Florida Keys, United States - 59 records
- Florida Springs, United States - 11 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 11 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 38913 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 4 records
- Mancora & North Coast, Peru - 3 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 10 records