General Information

COMMON NAMES: Dusky Jack, Banded Jack, Dark Jack, Whitetongue Jack, Cottonmouth Jack; French Carangue Langue Blanche TRADITIONAL NAMES: Leileionge (PK); Other Polynesian - Paia (TAH) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Marquesas, Hawai‘i; n. to Japan; s. to New Caledonia. s.e.Atlantic COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group rare; N.Group uncommon; Marine, near-shore (below 40m); 40-100m KEY FEATURES: To 40cmSL, depth ~2 in SL. Dark silvery grey-brown, paler below; subadults with 6-9 broad dark bars. Mouth at steep angle; Tongue, mouth-roof and mouth-floor white, rest is blue-black. Arched section of Lateral Line subequal straight section with scutes; Pectoral long and curved; 1st Dorsal with membrane; 2nd Dorsal and Anal without finlets and only slightly higher anteriorly; tail forked.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801)
SYNONYMS: Caranx helvolus; Scomber helvolus [O]; Uraspis helvolis [alt. spelling]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; CARANGIDAE, Caranginae

GENERAL NOTE: Caught on deepbottom handlines in Tuamotu, and known as Paia (Bagnis et.al.1987).

Vouchers:
Cooks: Smith-Vaniz 1984, FAO species ID sheets... area 51 Vol. 1. Rarotonga: 2 specimens F.A.D R.Storey, BPBM (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 3/2004, K.Salisbury with ID as Uraspis helvola based on various books, white tongue and no scales, whhite stripes absent when dead.

References:
Special Reference: Smith-Vaniz 1984, FAO species ID sheets... area 51 Vol. 1; Tinker 1978 Fishes of Hawaii, p.265; Bagnis et.al. 1987, p.56.

text p.141 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 60A Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia

Data Update History (information):
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