sexfasciatus, Caranx Quoy [J. R. C.] & Gaimard [J. P.] 1825:358, Pl. 65 (fig. 4) [Voyage autour du monde; ref. 3574] Île Waigiou [Pulau Waigeo, Papua Barat, Indonesia, western Pacific]. Holotype: MNHN A-6054. Type catalog: Smith-Vaniz et al. 1979:18 [ref. 12247]. •Mention -- (Hureau & Tortonese 1973:384 [ref. 7198]). •Valid as Carangoides sexfasciatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1825) -- (Bijukumar & Sushama 2000:186 [ref. 25703]). •Valid as Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 1825 -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:258 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:196 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:127 [ref. 29757], Gushiken in Masuda et al. 1984:155 [ref. 6441], Smith-Vaniz 1986:648 [ref. 5718], Daget & Smith-Vaniz 1986:312 [ref. 6207], Yu & Zhou in Kuang et al. 1986:228 [ref. 26639] dated 1824, Allen & Swainston 1988:72 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:578 [ref. 12442], Kawanabe & Mizuno 1989:518 [ref. 25598], Winterbottom et al. 1989:34 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:162 [ref. 15987], Allen & Coates 1990:86 [ref. 25561], Pethiyagoda 1991:216 [ref. 20075], Allen 1991:135 [ref. 21090], Ye in Pan et al. 1991:376 [ref. 23876], Allen et al. 1992:301 [ref. 21400], Kottelat et al. 1993:110 [ref. 23448], Kuiter 1993:174 [ref. 23929], Krishnan & Mishra 1993:225 [ref. 24016], Francis 1993:161 [ref. 25479], Allen & Robertson 1994:126 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:102 [ref. 23101], Goren & Dor 1994:34 [ref. 25356], Lea & Walker 1995:90 [ref. 23105], Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995:959 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:181 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:432 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:114 [ref. 23977], Cheng & Zhou 1997:267 [ref. 26385] with year as 1824, De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:80 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:365 [ref. 24023], Carpenter et al. 1997:161 [ref. 23922], Kuiter 1997:158 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:162 [ref. 25919], Lin & Shao 1999:56 [ref. 23921], Marquet et al. 1999:43 [ref. 23934], Myers 1999:140 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:249 [ref. 24106], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:294 [ref. 24550], Smith-Vaniz 1999:2716 [ref. 24833], Johnson 1999:734 [ref. 25471], Allen 2000:88 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:801 [ref. 25086], Smith-Vaniz in Randall & Lim 2000:616 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:232 [ref. 25191], Lea & Rosenblatt 2000:122 [ref. 25206], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:107 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:13 [ref. 25806], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:99 [ref. 26368], Kimura & Peristiwady in Matsuura & Peristiwady 2000:207 [ref. 27511], Sakai et al. 2001:97 [ref. 25693], Shimizu 2001:29 [ref. 25799], Hutchins 2001:33 [ref. 25847], Allen et al. 2002:349 [ref. 25930], Nakabo 2002:801 [ref. 26001], Choi et al. 2003:326, 603 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:38 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S107 [ref. 27377] as sexfasciatu, Kimura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:77 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:71 [ref. 27576] dated 1824, Randall et al. 2004:15 [ref. 27624], Mishra & Krishnan 2003:31 [ref. 27712], Nelson et al. 2004:140 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:306 [ref. 28072], Larson & Pidgeon 2004:196 [ref. 28107], Love et al. 2005:116 [ref. 37547], Randall 2005:230 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:367 [ref. 28379], Miller 2006:339 [ref. 28615], Hoese & Gates 2006:1157 [ref. 28997], Randall 2007:231 [ref. 30952], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:30 [ref. 31826], Béarez & Séret 2009:148 [ref. 36646], Fricke et al. 2009:56 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:121 [ref. 30425], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:115 [ref. 31256], Ho & Shao 2011: 45 [ref. 31432], Allen & Erdmann 2012:435 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:258 [ref. 32706], Kottelat 2013:333 [ref. 32989], Larson et al. 2013:121 [ref. 32988], Page et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32708], Yoshida et al. 2013:119 [ref. 34464], Barriga Salazar 2014:118 [ref. 35745], Fricke et al. 2014:82 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:6 [ref. 33988], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:396 [ref. 34894], Motomura et al. 2015:22 [ref. 34709], Psomadakis et al. 2015:222 [ref. 34104], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Fourriére et al. 2016:445 [ref. 34668], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Kells et al. 2016:234 [ref. 35888], Koeda et al. 2016:37 [ref. 35333], Miesen et al. 2016:89 [ref. 34492], Motomura et al. 2017:112 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:323 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:183 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:84 [ref. 36273], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:132 [ref. 36460], Sánchez-Jiménez et al. 2018:7 [ref. 36248], Suresh et al. 2018:206 [ref. 36495], Carneiro et al. 2019:252 [ref. 37250], Eagderi et al. 2019:49 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:146 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:75 [ref. 36871], Angulo et al. 2020:268 [ref. 37979], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 16 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:125 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:425 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:62 [ref. 37637], Angulo 2021:7 [ref. 38913], Keith et al. 2021:40 [ref. 38257], Kim et al. 2021:140 [ref. 39117], Love et al. 2021:153 [ref. 39279], Smith-Vaniz 2022:48 [ref. 39876], Zajonz et al. 2022:116 [ref. 40522], Angulo et al. 2023:45 [ref. 40676], Jamandre 2023:162 [ref. 40455], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 1825. Carangidae: Caranginae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to southern Sea of Japan (Korea, Japan), south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia, Norfolk Island (Australia) and Austral Islands (French Polynesia); eastern Pacific: southern California (U.S.A.) south to Ecuador, including southern Gulf of California (Mexico), Clipperton Island (France) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Hybridizes with Caranx melampygus Cuvier 1833 (Angulo et al. 2020 [ref. 37979]). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.