caballus, Caranx Günther [A.] 1868:431 [Transactions of the Zoological Society of London v. 6 (pt 7, no. 14); ref. 1994] Panama [eastern Pacific]. Syntypes: BMNH 1865.7.20.7-8 (2). •Valid as Caranx (Paratactus) caballus (Günther 1868) -- (Hiyama in Kumada 1937:33 [ref. 39147]). •Valid as Carangoides caballus (Günther 1868) -- (Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:287 [ref. 24550], Randall 2007:226 [ref. 30952]). •May be conspecific with Caranx crysos (Mitchill 1815) -- (Smith-Vaniz 2003:1439 [ref. 27083]). •Valid as Caranx caballus Günther 1868 -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:206 [ref. 9277], Pequeño 1989:60 [ref. 14125], Allen & Robertson 1994:126 [ref. 22193], Bussing & López S. 1994:102 [ref. 23101], Lea & Walker 1995:90 [ref. 23105], Smith-Vaniz in Fischer et al. 1995:953 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:77 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:364 [ref. 24023], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:279 [ref. 24555], Randall & Carlson 1999:357 [ref. 25808], Fuller et al. 1999:398 [ref. 25838], Nelson et al. 2004:140 [ref. 27807], Love et al. 2005:116 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:365 [ref. 28379], Springer & Smith-Vaniz 2008:29 [ref. 31826], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:192 [ref. 30957], McMahan et al. 2013:449 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:144 [ref. 32708], Angulo et al. 2013:999 [ref. 33194], Jiménez-Prado et al. 2015:396 [ref. 34894], Galván-Villa et al. 2016:146 [ref. 34871], Fourriére et al. 2016:458 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:609 [ref. 34923], Kells et al. 2016:234 [ref. 35888], Burton & Lea 2019:75 [ref. 37205], González-Murcia et al. 2019:298 [ref. 36544], Love et al. 2021:152 [ref. 39279], Angulo et al. 2023:44 [ref. 40676], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:202 [ref. 40816], Vela-Espinosa et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40981]). Current status: Valid as Caranx caballus Günther 1868. Carangidae: Caranginae. Distribution: Eastern Pacific: California (U.S.A.) south to Chile, including Gulf of California (Mexico) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), straying to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A., Central Pacific). Habitat: brackish, marine.