An obsolete or variant scientific name possibly related to the genus Caranx or the family Carangidae.
Latin or Latinized form derived from Greek karanks, used in historical scientific nomenclature, now largely superseded by modern terminology.
Old scientific names like this are linguistic fossils—they show how European scientists Latinized words from ancient Greek to sound more official!
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