Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Carangidae > Ulua > Ulua mentalis

Ulua mentalis (Longrakered trevally; Longraker trevally; Heavy-jawed kingfish; Heavyjawed kingfish; Cale-cale trevally; Cale cale trevally; Trevally)

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Language: Afrikaans; Agutaynen; Arabic; Bikol; Cebuano; Danish; Davawenyo; French; Hiligaynon; Kuyunon; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Maranao/Samal/Tao Sug; Persian; Polish; Portuguese; Somali; Spanish; Swahili; Tagalog; Vietnamese; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

The longrakered trevally, Ulua mentalis, (also known as the cale cale trevally and heavyjawed kingfish) is a species of marine fish in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae. The longrakered trevally is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and west Pacific Oceans, from Mozambique and Madagascar in the west, to Japan and northern Australia in the east. A large species growing to a recorded length of 1 m, the longrakered trevally is distinguished by is protruding lower jaw, elongated gill rakers and lack of villiform teeth on its tongue. It is an inshore species, restricted to coastal and estuarine regions, where it preys on fishes and crustaceans. Little is known of the species reproductive cycle or growth. The longrakered trevally is of minor impo
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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Postmonorchis orthopristis[1]

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1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0