Oligoplites

Oligoplites is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

Oligoplites
Leatherjacket (O. saurus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Carangoidei
Family:	Carangidae
Subfamily:	Scomberoidinae
Genus:	Oligoplites T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Scomber saurus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Synonyms
Leptoligoplites Fowler, 1944

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[1]

• Oligoplites altus (Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket)
• Oligoplites palometa (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket)
• Oligoplites refulgens C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket)
• Oligoplites saliens (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket)
• Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket)