Photo: Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 70 cm
- 🌊 sandy lagoons, gentle slopes
The blue trevally (or ferdau trevally) has a silvery body with broad dark vertical bands, clearly visible in the young. It roots in the sand for crustaceans and small fish. It frequents the sandy bottoms of the lagoon.
Did you know?
Its Tahitian name varies from island to island: it is called aruru in the Leeward Islands and pahuru in the Windward Islands.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Carangue rayée.
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