Pseudocaranx Bleeker, 1863
Dorsal accessory lateral line terminating in front of spinous dorsal fin. Both jaws essentially with a single row of blunt, conical teeth, but an inner row of smaller conical teeth also present in upper jaw of young. Shoulder girdle (cleithrum) margin smooth, without papillae. Terminal ray of dorsal and anal fins closely positioned to adjacent ray and completely attached by inter-radial membrane; spinous dorsal fin high, longest spine longer than length of soft dorsal fin lobe. No enlarged scute-like scales anteriorly in curved lateral line; scutes present in straight lateral line.
Habitat: usually inshore, feeds on the bottom; a schooling species. Food: benthic invertebrates. Reproduction: see family.
Distribution: Portugal, the Azores and Madeira, and Mediterranean (not common). Elsewhere, eastern Atlantic: the Canaries, the Cape Verde Is., Ascension I. and St. Helena; also in temperate or subtropical waters of Bermuda, southern Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaiian Is.
Species 3; in Clofnam area 1.
Species of this genus in the program:
Pseudocaranx dentex