Kingfish vs. Amberjack — What's the Difference?

Any of several food and game fishes of the family Sciaenidae, especially of the genus Menticirrhus, found in western Atlantic waters.

Amberjack is an Atlantic and Pacific fish in the genus Seriola of the family Carangidae. They are a game fish, most often found in the warmer parts of the oceans.

Any of various carangid fishes.

Any of various food and game fishes of the genus Seriola, found in temperate and tropical marine waters.

See king mackerel.

Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.

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Any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes

Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.

Other Atlantic fish

Opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom

White croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom

Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados

King mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)

Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.

(Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia

(Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia

Yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand

(Rexea solandri) of Australia

Caranx

(Caranx hippos) of Mauritania

Giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa

Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.

An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially Menticirrus saxatilis, or Menticirrus nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; - called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.

The lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States

Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

Small silvery marine food fish found off California

Any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast

Large game fish of Australia and New Zealand