Crevalle jack
Scientific name: Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766)
Overview
The crevalle jack, also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli is a common species of large marine fish classified within the jack family, Carangidae. The crevalle jack is distributed across the tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Nova Scotia, Canada to Uruguay in the western Atlantic and Portugal to Angola in the eastern Atlantic, including the Mediterranean Sea. It is distinguishable from similar species by its deep body, fin colouration and a host of more detailed anatomical features, including fin ray and lateral line scale counts. It is one of the largest fish in the genus Caranx, growing to a maximum known length of 124 cm and a weight of 32 kg, although is rare at lengths greater than 60 cm. The crevalle jack inhabits both inshore and offshore waters to depths of around 350 m, predominantly over reefs, bays, lagoons and occasionally estuaries. Young fish dispersed north by currents in the eastern Atlantic are known to migrate back to more tropical waters before the onset of winter; however, if the fish fail to migrate, mass mortalities occur as the temperature falls below the species' tolerance.
From the Wikipedia article “Crevalle jack”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
Common names
Also known in English as Black-tailed Trevally, Black Cavalli, Blacktailed Trevally, Cabali, Cabalo, Carangue, cevalle jack, common jack, Couvalli Jack, crevalle, Crevelle Jack, Green Jack.
Names in other languages (9)
- Arabic
- شيم حصاني
- Chinese
- 馬鰺
- French
- Camard, Carangue, carangue crevalle, Carangue Macoque, Cavalli, Couvalli
- German
- Cavalla
- Indonesian
- Kuwe lilin
- Japanese
- ムナグロアジ
- Persian
- شاهگیش دمسیاه
- Spanish
- caballa, Cavalla, Chumbo, Cocinero, Jiguagua, Jurel
- Turkish
- kral balik
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: FishBase.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q1051743, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Crevalle jack”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Caio Henrique G. Cutrim, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Kare Kare, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026