Coastal Trevally (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The coastal trevally, Carangoides coeruleopinnatus is a species of inshore marine fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and west Pacific Oceans, from South Africa in the west to Japan and New Caledonia in the east, reaching as far south as Australia. The species is found on deep coastal reefs, both in schools and as solitary individuals, where they prey on small midwater organisms including crustaceans, small fish and cephalopods. The species is taken as bycatch in a number of fisheries throughout its range by a number of fishing methods and is of little commercial value, but is considered to be a good table fish. A mistype in the original volume in which Eduard Rppell named the species led to the combination Carangoides caeruleopinnatus, which has incorrectly spread through the literature.