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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.


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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
:
 
More related species
in this lexicon
:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2026-03-09 10:22:53 

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Caranx ruber (Bloch, 1793)

fishbase: Reports of ciguatera poisoning

Synonymised names
Carangoides ruber (Bloch, 1793) · unaccepted
Elaphotoxon ruber (Bloch, 1793) · unaccepted
Elaphrotoxon ruber · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Scomber ruber Bloch, 1793 · unaccepted

External links

  1. fishbase (en). Abgerufen am 09.03.2026.

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Bar Jacks, Caranx ruber,Honduras, Roatan, 1997
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