Atlantic bumper

Chloroscombrus chrysurus

Fish Reaching Sixty Five Centimeters in Mexican Waters

Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Central America and the Caribbean
Europe
North America
South America
Fusiform
Large
Tropical fish

The Atlantic bumper (Chloroscombrus chrysurus) is a game fish in the family, Carangidae. It was first described by the "father of modern taxonomy", Carl Linnaeus in the book, Systema Naturae. Atlantic bumper are known to eat smaller fish, cephalopods, and zooplankton.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Jacks, Flatfishes, Barracudas, and Allies
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Chloroscombrus
Maximum length: 65 cm
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to Florida, USA and Bermuda to Uruguay; throughout Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 9626 ); Bahamas, Antilles, along Central and South American coasts to Uruguay (Ref. 26938 ). Eastern Atlantic: Spain to Angola (Ref. 57392 ). First recorded from the Mediterranean Sea (Ref. 128468 ). Replaced by Chloroscombrus orqueta in eastern Pacific. These two species have not been adequately studied and may prove to be conspecific.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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