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TURRUM FACTS |
Description
The Turrum is blue-green above and silvery below. It has small greenish or brownish spots on the upper sides of the body. The spots may be grouped into four or five rough bands. Large fish sometime shave three black blotches in a row on flanks.
Other Names
Yellowspotted trevally, Embury's Turrum, Gold-spotted Trevally
Size
length to 1.2m. Weight to 18kg
Habitat
rocky reefs, coral reefs, offshore banks to depths of 100m. Found singly or in large schools.
Food
Feeds on small invertebrates, fish
Range
The Turrum is found in tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific. In Australia it is found from south-western coast of Western Australia up round the Northern Territory and down the Queensland coast to southern Queensland.
Classification
| Class: | Actinopterygii | | Order: | Perciformes | | Family: | Carangidae | | Genus: | Carangoides | | Species: | fulvoguttatus | | Common Name: | Turrum |
Relatives in same Genus
Onion Trevally (C. caeruleopinnatus)
Longnose Trevally (C. chrysophrys)
Blue Trevally (C. ferdau)
Thicklip Trevally (C. orthogrammus)
Barcheek Trevally (C. plagiotaenia)
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