Fish of the Caranx genus of the subfamily Caranginae of the Carangidae family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(False scad. Photo © armacao.exblog.jp)
False scad (Caranx rhonchus) was first described in 1817 by the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844).
It inhabits the depth of 30-200 meters. It is a schooling species. It enters the bays and estuaries. The maximum recorded length is 60 cm, usually about 35 cm. The maximum weight is 1 kg. It feeds on small fish and invertebrates.
(False scad. Photo by © Achille De Sanctis. fishbase.org)
It has recently appeared in the Adriatic Sea and at the moment it’s a permanent inhabitant of the sea.
Names of false scad (Caranx rhonchus) in other languages as follows:
Πρασινοκοκάλι (Prasinokokali) (Greek), Zninit (Hebrew), Macarela real (Spanish), Carango ronco (Italian), Gestreifter Stöcker (German), Karanks chropik (Polish), Charro-molar (Portuguese), Африканский каранкс (Afrikanskij caranx) (Russian), Falši šarun, Falši sarun, falšun (Serbian, Croatian), Rumeni trnobok (Slovenian), Comète coussut (French).