Teleostei (teleosts) > Carangiformes (Jacks) > Carangidae (Jacks and pompanos) > Caranginae
Etymology: Decapterus: Greek, deka = ten + Greek, pteron = wing, fin (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Temminck & Schlegel.

Marine; pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range 1 - 320 m (Ref. 58302); tropical.

Indo-Pacific: Japan and northwestern Hawaiian Is., east and west coast of Australia, Rapa and Easter Is.; and from the Gulf of California to Peru.

Max length: 50.0 cm FL male/unsexed (Ref. 7097); common length: 30.0 cm Fl male/unsexed (Ref. 9283).

Adults are pelagic (Ref. 58302), in oceanic and inshore waters (Ref. 9563) forming schools (Ref. 9283). They feed mainly on planktonic invertebrates (Ref. 9283). Marketed fresh and salted or dried (Ref. 9283).

Edwards, A. 1990 Fish and fisheries of Saint Helena Island. Centre for Tropical Coastal Management Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. (Ref. 5288)

  Least Concern (LC); date assessed: March 09 2015

Not Evaluated

Not Evaluated

  Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 14.1 - 28.1, mean 23.6 °C (based on 1345 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.501 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.5 se; Based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (42 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium; Questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this genus.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 481 [159, 1,454] mg/100g; Iron = 4.95 [1.76, 11.62] mg/100g; Protein = 19.9 [18.5, 21.4] %; Omega3 = 0.369 [0.177, 0.790] g/100g; Selenium = 98.4 [31.3, 289.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 15 [4, 62] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.28 [0.72, 2.35] mg/100g (wet weight);