Cottonmouth jack

Cottonmouth jack
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Carangoidei
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Uraspis
Species:
U. secunda
Binomial name
Uraspis secunda
(Poey, 1860)
Synonyms[2]
  • Caranx secundus Poey, 1860
  • Caranx hullianus McCulloch, 1909
  • Bassetina hullianus (McCulloch, 1909)
  • Leucoglossa albilinguis Jordan, Evermann & Wakiya, 1927
  • Uraspis reversa Jordan, Evermann & Wakiya, 1927
  • Uraspis riukiuensis Wakiya, 1927
  • Uraspis heidi Fowler, 1938
  • Uraspis wakiyai Williams, 1961
  • Uraspis cadenati Blache & Rossignol, 1962

The cottonmouth jack (Uraspis secunda) is a gamefish in the family Carangidae. It was first described in 1860 by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba". It is also known as the cottonmouth trevally.

  1. ^ Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; Williams, J.T.; Pina Amargos, F.; Curtis, M. & Brown, J. (2017) [errata version of 2015 assessment]. "Uraspis secunda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T16507729A115360577. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T16507729A16510417.en.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference fishbase.org was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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