A silver jack with blue fins and scattered gold spots, over Maldivian reef and sand.
To about 70 cm and 8 kg. Compressed and oblong with a bluntly rounded snout, blue-green to yellow-green above and silvery below, with five to seven broad dusky vertical bars and numerous inconspicuous golden spots mostly above the level of the pectoral fin. The soft dorsal and anal fins are pale yellow-green with white tips to the lobes.
The island trevally is the confusion and it is marked with prominent yellow spots rather than broad bars.
Nought to sixty metres over coastal sand near coral reefs, in lagoons and off beaches, singly or in small schools. It takes bottom crustaceans and molluscs more than fish, and in Hawaii it has been recorded following foraging fish and taking what they uncover. Juveniles sometimes shelter among the tentacles of large open-water jellyfish.
Ciguatera is reported, though the flesh is described as rarely poisonous. The accepted name is now Ferdauia ferdau; older guides print Carangoides ferdau.
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