Bigeye trevally
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Young bigeye trevally sometimes enter fresh water.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bigeye trevally
- Scientific name
- Caranx sexfasciatus
- Japanese name
- ギンガメアジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Carangiformes
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Caranx
A fish found from Japan's coasts and southern islands across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Bigeye trevally lives
Adults are very active at night or in twilight. They eat fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans. They release their eggs into the open water.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Izu Islands, Indo-Pacific and across the Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Bigeye trevally has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ギンガメアジ
- 简体中文
- 六带鲹
- 繁體中文
- 六帶鰺
- 한국어
- 줄전갱이
- Español
- Jurel ojigordo
- Français
- Carangue Vorace
- Deutsch
- Großaugen-Makrele
- Português (Brasil)
- Xaréu-olhudo
- Italiano
- Carangide occhi grossi
- العربية
- شيم كبير العين
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá khế sáu sọc
- Русский
- Шестиполосый каранкс
- ไทย
- ปลาสีขน
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ギンガメアジChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Bigeye Trevally, Caranx sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 1825Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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