Rastrelliger
| Rastrelliger | |
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| Rastrelliger kanagurta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Scombridae |
| Tribe: | Scombrini |
| Genus: | Rastrelliger Jordan and Starks in Jordan and Dickerson, 1908 |
| Type species | |
| Scomber brachysoma Bleeker, 1851 | |
| Species | |
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Rastrelliger is a mackerel genus in the family Scombridae. The three species of Rastrelliger together with the four species of Scomber comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels".
Species
The three species which comprise Rastrelliger are:[1]
- Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker, 1851) (Short mackerel)
- Rastrelliger faughni, Matsui, 1967 (Island mackerel)
- Rastrelliger kanagurta, (Cuvier, 1816) (Indian mackerel)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2018). Species of Rastrelliger in FishBase. February 2018 version.
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