Caranx

Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 1-48 : 11

Caranx n. sp.

This undescribed species resembling C. hippos (Linnaeus, 1766) is being described by W. Smith-Vaniz and K. Carpenter (in press). It is characterized by a conspicuously white anal fin edge and large adults have a rather deep body and long dorsal and anal fin lobes. A large adult was photographed near Bom Bom Islet, Príncipe, in 15 m depth (Figure 11) and observed by CLS and PW at Diogo Vaz, São Tomé, in 25-30 m depth. Elsewhere this species has been recorded from Mauritania to Angola and from Ascension Island (SmithVaniz, pers. comm.). The species was identified from photos (only a tissue sample was collected from a specimen from São Tomé fish market).