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Carangidae

Carangidae

9.9
A family of sea fish with narrow bodies and forked tails found in warm seas like jacks and pompanos
  • noun
  • /kəˈræn.dʒɪ.di/
  • Specialized
translation icon : carángidos
  • The Carangidae family includes popular food fishes like jacks and pompanos found in tropical waters.

Examples

  • Among the 37 families, Carangidae had more than 10 species, Sciaenidae had seven species, Clupeidae, Engraulidae, and Leiognathidae each had four species, and Lutjanidae and Pomadasyidae each had two species. The remaining 30 families were all monospecific.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Fishermen often target species from the Carangidae family for their delicious taste and firm texture.

  • In warm seas, members of the Carangidae family are known for their swift swimming and forked tails.

Surface Forms

Carangidae singular
Carangidae plural

Morphology

Carangidae = Caranx (opaque) = carang + idae

Formed with the scientific family suffix '-idae' from a genus stem; this taxonomic formation is specialized and not derivable by average learners from the base form.

Etymology

Carangidae comes from the genus name Caranx, the jacks and pompanos, plus the scientific ending -idae, which means 'family' in animal names. So Carangidae is the 'family' name for jacks, pompanos and trevallies, explaining why it refers to this group of narrow-bodied, fork-tailed sea fishes.