Brassy Trevally

Brassy Trevally is often taken for a Giant Trevally. It is lighter, brassy to yellow-green on the back and sprinkled with small black spots above the lateral line, with a pale, black-edged spot at the top of the gill cover and a thin white band along the rear edge of the tail. Giant Trevally is silvery grey to black, with at most a scattering of spots, and grows twice as large.

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Brassy Trevally is often taken for a Bluefin Trevally: both are sprinkled with small dark spots above. Bluefin Trevally has electric-blue second dorsal, anal and tail fins, and blue-black spots. Brassy Trevally has no blue on its fins, which are yellow to dusky; its back is brassy to yellow-green, it has a pale, black-edged spot at the top of the gill cover, and a thin white border runs along the lower lobe of its tail.

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Both are big trevallies with a brassy tint and spots above the midline. Yellowspotted Trevally's spots are small and gold or brassy, on an iridescent blue-green back, and large adults add three to five blurred black blotches along the flanks. Brassy Trevally's spots are black, on a brassy to yellow-green back, and it has a pale, black-edged spot at the top of the gill cover.

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