#2381 · 🐟 fish
Bar Jack
🇳🇱 Jager ·Caranx ruber
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what is it?
The bar jack ( Caranx ruber ) (also known as the carbonero , red jack , blue-striped cavalla and passing jack ) is a common species of inshore marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The bar jack is distributed through the western Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey and Bermuda in the north to Venezuela and possibly Brazil in the south, with the largest population in the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies. The bar jack is most simply distinguished...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 3,668 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1793 (233 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bar Jack
- Nederlands
- Jager
- scientific name
- Caranx ruber
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Carangiformes
- family
- Carangidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 3,668
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1793 by Marcus Elieser Bloch
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Carangidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 82330, Wikidata Q28658208, GBIF 2390989, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.