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title: "Paardmakreel"
description: "Caranx hippos — Vissen. The crevalle jack (Caranx hippos), also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli is a common species of large marine fish classified within the jack family, Carangidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/atlantic-crevalle-jack
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Paardmakreel

> Caranx hippos — Vissen. The crevalle jack (Caranx hippos), also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli is a common species of large marine fish classified within the jack family, Carangidae.

- Scientific name: *Caranx hippos*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 2550
- Wikidata: [Q1051743](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1051743)
- iNaturalist taxon: [47230](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47230)

## Names

- en: Atlantic Crevalle Jack
- de: Cavalla
- es: Jurel amarillo común
- fr: Carangue crevalle
- nl: Paardmakreel
- pl: Karanks atlantycki

## Countries with the most observations

US (1890), MX (116), HN (22), BR (21), CA (18), CO (13), CU (10), BZ (9), CM (9), GF (7), PR (7), TT (7)

## Summary

The crevalle jack (Caranx hippos), also known as the common jack, black-tailed trevally, couvalli jack, black cavalli, jack crevale, or yellow cavalli is a common species of large marine fish classified within the jack family, Carangidae. The crevalle jack is distributed across the tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Nova Scotia, Canada to Uruguay in the western Atlantic and Portugal to Angola in the eastern Atlantic, including the Mediterranean Sea. It is distinguishable from similar species by its deep body, fin colouration and a host of more detailed anatomical features, including…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crevalle_jack

## Photo

![Paardmakreel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/atlantic-crevalle-jack/medium.jpg)

Photo: Daniel Estabrooks · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26608843

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/atlantic-crevalle-jack?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).