 The species was independently renamed a number of times, the first as "Tarrum emburyi" by Gilbert Percy Whitley, a name which was commonly used and later transferred into "Caranx" and "Carangoides".Some 15 years later, Whitley again assigned the fish to a new species and genus name, "Ferdauia claeszooni", but this genus was soon synonymised with "Carangoides", and this name, as well as "Tarrum emburyi", was shown to be a junior synonym of "Carangoides fulvoguttatus".The common name 'tarrum' is still used in Australia for the fish, but is also widely misapplied to similar species.