Spanish mackerel
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| Cero mackerel, Scomberomorus regalis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Scombroidei |
| Family: | Scombridae |
| Subfamily: | Scombrinae |
| Tribe: | Scomberomorini Starks, 1910 |
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Scomberomorini is a tribe of ray-finned saltwater bony fishes that is commonly known as the Spanish mackerels or seerfishes. This tribe is a subset of the mackerel family (Scombridae) – a family that it shares with three sister tribes, the tunas, mackerels, and bonitos, and the butterfly kingfish. Scomberomorini comprises 21 species across three genera.[1]
Taxonomy
The following cladogram shows the most likely evolutionary relationships between the Spanish mackerels and the tunas, mackerels, bonitos, and the butterfly kingfish.
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| Cladogram showing the relationship of the Scomberomorini tribe with the rest of the Scombridae family.[2][3] |
This tribe comprises 21 species in three genera:
- Acanthocybium (Gill, 1862)
- A. solandri (Cuvier, 1832), wahoo
- Grammatorcynus (Gill, 1862)
- G. bicarinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825), shark mackerel
- G. bilineatus (Rüppell, 1836), double-lined mackerel
- Scomberomorus (Lacepède, 1801)
- S. brasiliensis Collette, Russo & Zavala-Camin, 1978, Serra Spanish mackerel
- S. cavalla (Cuvier, 1829), king mackerel
- S. commerson (Lacépède, 1800), narrow-barred Spanish mackerel
- S. concolor (Lockington, 1879), Monterrey Spanish mackerel
- S. guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Indo-Pacific king mackerel
- S. koreanus (Kishinouye, 1915), Korean seerfish
- S. lineolatus (Cuvier, 1829), streaked seerfish
- S. maculatus (Couch, 1832), Atlantic Spanish mackerel
- S. multiradiatus Munro, 1964, Papuan seerfish
- S. munroi Collette & Russo, 1980, Australian spotted mackerel
- S. niphonius (Cuvier, 1832), Japanese Spanish mackerel
- S. plurilineatus Fourmanoir, 1966, Kanadi kingfish
- S. queenslandicus Munro, 1943, Queensland school mackerel
- S. regalis (Bloch, 1793), Cero mackerel
- S. semifasciatus (Macleay, 1883), broadbarred king mackerel
- S. sierra Jordan & Starks, 1895, Pacific sierra
- S. sinensis (Lacépède, 1800), Chinese seerfish
- S. tritor (Cuvier, 1832), West African Spanish mackerel
See also
References
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