The horse-eye jack (Caranx latus) is similar to a jack crevalle. Horse-eye jacks are known for their large eyes, they are gray to bluish-black above and a silvery-white on its sides and belly. A row of dark-colored scutes extends from the middle of the body to the center of the forked tail fin. The horse-eye jack’s tail fin is yellow and the top of the rear dorsal fin is blackish. The horse-eye can also be identified if in hand easily becaue unlike other jacks its chest covered entirely in scales.

The horse-eye jack can be found in the western Atlantic from New Jersey through much of the Gulf of Mexico South to Brazil. Horse-eye jacks are found in open water and occasionally they will travel up coastal streams and rivers when young.

Horse-eye jack’s eat fish, crabs and shrimp.

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