Pseudocaranx

Pseudocaranx is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae, the jacks, trevallies, scads, and pompanos. They occur in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific.^[3]

Pseudocaranx
White Trevally (juveniles) (P. dentex)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Carangoidei
Family:	Carangidae
Subfamily:	Caranginae
Genus:	Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863
Type species
Scomber dentex Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801[1]
Synonyms[2]
Citula Cuvier, 1816 Longirostrum Wakiya, 1924 Usa Whitley, 1927 Usacaranx Whitley, 1931

Species

Four recognized species are placed in this genus:^[3]

• Pseudocaranx chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) (Juan Fernandez trevally)
• Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (white trevally)
• Pseudocaranx dinjerra Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2006
• Pseudocaranx wrighti (Whitley, 1931) (skipjack trevally)

Fishbase does not treat Pseudocaranx georgianus as a valid species, treating it as a junior synonym of P. dentex, but notes that many other authorities treat it as a valid species.^[4] Catalog of Fishes and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species treat it as a valid species.^[5][6]