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title: "Blue Runner"
description: "Caranx crysos — Peixes. The blue runner (Caranx crysos), also known as the bluestripe jack, Egyptian scad, hardtail jack, or hardnose, is a common species of moderately large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/blue-runner
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue Runner

> Caranx crysos — Peixes. The blue runner (Caranx crysos), also known as the bluestripe jack, Egyptian scad, hardtail jack, or hardnose, is a common species of moderately large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae.

- Scientific name: *Caranx crysos*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 2476
- Wikidata: [Q2288528](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2288528)
- iNaturalist taxon: [96740](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/96740)

## Names

- en: Blue Runner
- de: Stachelmakrele
- es: Cojinuda negra
- fr: Carangue coubali

## Countries with the most observations

US (840), MX (152), ES (150), IT (107), GR (99), PR (51), TR (36), BS (32), MQ (29), IL (28), MT (27), CW (26)

## Summary

The blue runner (Caranx crysos), also known as the bluestripe jack, Egyptian scad, hardtail jack, or hardnose, is a common species of moderately large marine fish classified in the jack family, Carangidae. The blue runner is distributed across the Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Brazil to Canada in the western Atlantic and from Angola to Great Britain including the Mediterranean in the east Atlantic. The blue runner is distinguished from similar species by several morphological features, including the extent of the upper jaw, gill raker count, and lateral line scale counts. The blue runner is known to reach a maximum…

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

## Photo

![Blue Runner](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-runner/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dorota Wrońska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313846548

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-runner?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).