Uraspis
Genus of fishes
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| Uraspis | |
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| Uraspis secunda | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Carangoidei |
| Family: | Carangidae |
| Subfamily: | Caranginae |
| Genus: | Uraspis (Bleeker, 1855) |
| Type species | |
| Uraspis carangoides (Bleeker, 1855) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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 | Uraspis helvola (J. R. Forster, 1801) | whitetongue jack | Atlantic Ocean, it is found in west Africa. In the Indian Ocean, its range is from the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf south to eastern Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, and Comoros. It is also found in western India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Sea, western Sumatra, southern Indonesia, and western and southern Australia. In the Pacific Ocean, it is found off eastern Asia, around Hawaii, and New Zealand. |
| Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860) | cottonmouth jack | Western Indian Ocean, they are found off the coast of Tanzania, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, they are known from California to Costa Rica and Hawaii. |
 | Uraspis uraspis (Günther, 1860) | whitemouth jack | the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, and from the Philippines to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan and east towards Hawaii. |
