Caranx ruber Bar Jack. Never Bite

Caranx ruber is commonly referred to as Bar Jack. Never Bite. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: toxic.

Profile

lexID:

9901 

AphiaID:

302432 

Scientific:

Caranx ruber 

German:

Blaurücken-Stachelmakrele 

English:

Bar Jack. Never Bite 

Category:

Makrillfiskar 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Carangidae (Family) > Caranx (Genus) > ruber (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch, ), 1793 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, North-West-Atlantic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

0 - 35 Meter 

Habitats:

Algae zones, Coastal waters, Coral reefs, Reef-associated, Seagrass meadows, Eelgrass Meadows, Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

10.24" - 28.74" (26cm - 73cm) 

Weight:

8.2 kg 

Temperature:

32 °F - 82.4 °F (0°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Amphipods, Clams, Copepods, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Fish larvae, Invertebrates, Krill, Mantis shrimps, Mysis, Ostracodes (seed shrimps), Schrimps, Sepia, Snails, Worms, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

toxic 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Caranx bucculentus
  Blaupunktstachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx caballus
  Grüne Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx caninus
  Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx crysos
  Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx fischeri
  Dickkopf-Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx heberi
  Herbers Makrele, Schwarzspitzen-Makrele
• 
  Caranx hippos
  Pferde-Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx ignobilis
  Dickkopf-Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx latus
  Pferdemakrele
• 
  Caranx lugubris
  Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx melampygus
  Blauflossen-Makrele, Stachelmakrele
• 
  Caranx papuensis
  Papua-Makrele
• Caranx rhonchus
• 
  Caranx ruber
  Blaurücken-Stachelmakrele
• Caranx senegallus
• 
  Caranx sexfasciatus
  Großaugen-Stachelmakrele
• Caranx tille
• Caranx vinctus
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Caranx bartholomaei
  Stachelmakrele

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-09-21 15:32:01 

Last edit:

2026-03-09 10:22:53 

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