Distribution and Habitat
The whitefin trevally is distributed throughout the tropical and temperate waters Indo-Pacific region, although has a very patchily recorded distribution. In the western Indian Ocean, the species has only been recorded from South Africa, Somalia and in the Gulf of Oman. In the eastern Indian Ocean, the species is known from north western Australia, and definitely extends its distribution into the Pacific as far as Okinawa, Japan. If Carangoides dasson is synonymous with Carangoides equula, this extends the species distribution well into the Pacific, ranging to Hawaii and Easter Island. Before the species was recorded in Australia in 1988, the whitefin trevally was thought to only have an anti-tropical distribution. The fish probably has a more continuous distribution than currently known, with lack of adequate sampling contributiong the patchily known distribution.
The whitefin trevally is thought to primarily inhabit deep waters on the continental shelf and slope between 90 and 200 m deep over sandy and muddy substrates. There has been at least one record of the species in shallow inshore waters, where an individual was captured off a sandy beach on Japan, but thought to be stray fish.
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