Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817

Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1817 —False scad Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy St. Hilaire 1809 by George et al. (1964: 19); subsequently recorded as Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy St Hil. by Mouneimné (1977: 63); as Caranx rhonchus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1817 by Mouneimné (2002: 143). Recent unpublished records from Okaibeh (5 October 2006). Material in collection: ANSP, AUBM, BMNH, CAS, MCZ and USNM (as Decapterus rhonchus). Distribution. Southern and eastern Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Morocco south to Namibia. Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 10 May 2013); Med. (LC: 16 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, HAB, NIS, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Low priority for conservation action.Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/398388