Bigeye Trevally

Scientific Name: Caranx sexfasciatus
Family: Jacks - Carangidae
Maximum Size: 100cm
Identification: Silver (males turn black when courting); small black spot on upper end of gill cover, white tip on fore lobe of rear dorsal fin; relatively large eye.
Favourite: Form large schools.
Hide-out: Most common on clear outer reefs to 50m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to far eastern Pacific. S.W. Japan to Australia.