 They named the species "Caranx sexfasciatus" which the species is still currently accepted as, with the specific epithet meaning 'six banded' in relation to its juvenile colouration.Following this, the species was independently redescribed and named around fifteen times, and incorrectly broken into two subspecies.In his massive ichthyological volume entitled "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons", Georges Cuvier managed to assign no less than four junior synonyms to the species, while the most recent renaming was by Yojiro Wakiya in 1924, who applied the name "Caranx oshimai".