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title: Yellowspotted Trevally (Carangoides fulvoguttatus)
scientific_name: Carangoides fulvoguttatus
common_name: Yellowspotted Trevally
taxon: Jacks, Amberjacks, Pompanos
conservation_status: LC - Least Concern
published: 2024-11-11T11:02:30.829Z
updated: 2026-08-13T12:14:23.130Z
tags: Yellowspotted Trevally, Carangoides fulvoguttatus, Jacks, Amberjacks, Pompanos, Red Sea, Marine Life, Diving
url: https://redseacreatures.com/taxon/fishes/bony-fishes/jacks-amberjacks-pompanos/yellowspotted-trevally
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# Yellowspotted Trevally (*Carangoides fulvoguttatus*)

## Quick facts

- **Group:** Jacks, Amberjacks, Pompanos (*Carangidae*)
- **Size:** up to 1.2 m
- **Weight:** 18 Kg
- **Depth:** 1-100 m
- **Diet:** Carnivore
- **Activity:** Diurnal
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Habitat:** Sand and rubble beside deeper reef, over open bottom
- **Reproduction:** Broadcast spawner, Gonochoric
- **Hazard:** Poisonous
- **Conservation status:** LC - Least Concern

## How to recognise it

- elongated silver-green body scattered with small golden spots in adults
- three or four dark blotches along the lateral line in larger fish
- small mouth for a jack, and a gently curved forehead
- length up to 1.2 m

A long silver-green jack to 1.2 m (4 ft), scattered with small golden spots that appear as the fish grows - a young one is plain, and the spots plus a few dark blotches along the flank arrive with size.

It hunts the bottom rather than the water column. Where most jacks chase schooling fish in open water, this one works sand and rubble with a small mouth, taking crustaceans, worms and small fish flushed out of the sediment, often nosing into the bottom to do it. Loose groups of a few animals fish the same patch together.

Because it feeds down rather than out, it is often seen alongside goatfish and rays, taking what their digging turns up - a following relationship rather than a partnership.

It is a strong game fish and a good food fish, and larger individuals in some regions carry ciguatera. As with the rest of the family, the fish landed on a boat has lost most of its color within minutes and looks nothing like the animal a diver watched.

## Also known as

- **English:** Yellowspotted Trevally, yellowspotted kingfish, Gold-spotted Trevally
- **Arabic:** Farakh Al Jab, Bayad, Hamam
- **French:** Carangue à douttes d'Or, Carangue à taches fauves, Carangue amoureuse
- **Spanish:** Jurel Centellante
- **Japanese:** ホシカイワリ

## Scientific synonyms

- *Carangoides emburyi* (Whitley, 1932)
- *Carangoides fulvogutatus* (Forsskål, 1775)
- *Carangoides fulvoguttatus* (Forsskål, 1775)
- *Caranx emburyi* (Whitley, 1932)
- *Caranx fulvoguttatus* (Forsskål, 1775)
- *Ferdauia claeszooni* Whitley, 1947
- *Scomber fulvoguttatus* Forsskål, 1775
- *Turrum emburyi* Whitley, 1932

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*Source: [Red Sea Creatures](https://redseacreatures.com/taxon/fishes/bony-fishes/jacks-amberjacks-pompanos/yellowspotted-trevally)*
*Updated: August 13, 2026*