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ca·ran·gid

(kə-răn′jĭd, -răng′gĭd)

Any of a large family (Carangidae) of marine food and game fishes, such as the jacks and pompanos.

[From New Latin Carangidae, family name, from French carangue, mackerel, from Spanish caranga, perhaps ultimately from Latin cancer, crab.]

ca·ran′gid adj.

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carangid

(kəˈrændʒɪd; -ˈræŋɡɪd) or

carangoid

(Animals) any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish

adj

(Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Carangidae

[C19: from New Latin Carangidae, from Caranx type genus, from French carangue shad, from Spanish caranga, of obscure origin]

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ca•ran•gid

(kəˈræn dʒɪd)

n.

1. any of numerous fishes of the family Carangidae, comprising the jacks, scads, pompanos, and cavallas.

adj.

2. belonging or pertaining to the carangids.

[1885–90; < New Latin Carangidae <Carang-, s. of Caranx genus name]

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Noun	1.	carangid - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae carangid fish percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas horsefish, horsehead, horse-head, moonfish, Selene setapinnis, Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish - any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies pompano - any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Naucrates ductor, pilotfish - small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
Adj.	1.	carangid - of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae zoological science, zoology - the branch of biology that studies animals

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Effect of antibiotics on survival of carangid fish larvae (Caranx mate), reared in the laboratory.

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Osteological development of the caudal skeleton in the carangid, Seriola lalandi.

Skeletal Ontogeny and Anomalies in Larval and Juvenile Crimson Snapper, Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch, 1790

Cha, McGowan and Richards (1994) sampled fish larvae off the Florida Keys and found that 92.4 % of the carangid larvae occurred in the upper 25 m of the water column, and 100 % occurred in the upper 50 m (Fernandez-Cordeiro & Banon-Diaz, 1997).

Genetic variation and genetic structure of Caranx hippos (Teleostei: Carangidae) in the Colombian Caribbean

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Peters, "Maximum sustainable speed, energetics and swimming kinematics of a tropical carangid fish, the green jack Caranx caballus," Journal of Fish Biology, vol.

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Caligus bonito was found in carangid fish of the genus Oligoplites Gill (TAKEMOTO et al., 1993).

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Osteology and systematics of Parastromateus niger (Perciformes: Carangidae), with comments on the carangid dorsal gill-arch skeleton.

The morphology and sculpture of ossicles in the Cyclopteridae and Liparidae (Teleostei) of the Baltic Sea/Laanemere kahe voldaselise (Teleostei, Cottiformes, Cyclopteridac ja Liparidae) vaikeste luuliste elementide morfoloogia ning skulptuur

Seabrook provided an account of the pursuit of the Black Jack fish (Caranx lugubris), a carangid that inhabits inshore waters.

Prehistoric fishing strategies on the makatea island of Rurutu

We therefore investigated the light sensitivity, spectral sensitivity, and temporal visual resolution of juvenile Pacific bluefin tunas by using an electroretinogram (ERG) technique, and we compared the results with those obtained in chub mackerel (a pelagic scombrid fish) and striped jack (Pseudocaranx dentex), a coastal carangid fish.

Electroretinographic analysis of night vision in juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)

The most abundant genera of medium-sized fish belong to the scombrid family (Scombridae), the mackerel (Scomber) and the Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus), or to the carangid family (Carangidae), such as the saurel (Trachurus) and jacks or kingfish (Seriola).

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Some 14 varieties are commercially harvested from the Gulf, among them the silvery or golden yellow Talang queenfish (50 to 100 cm) and the Golden toothless crevally (a relatively large carangid that can exceed one meter in length).