Blue jack mackerel

Blue jack mackerel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Perciformes
Family:Carangidae
Genus:Trachurus
Species: T. picturatus
Binomial name
Trachurus picturatus
(S. Bowdich, 1825)
Synonyms[2]

Trachurus suareus (Risso in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1833)

The blue jack mackerel (Trachurus picturatus) is a species of mackerel-like fish in the family Carangidae.[2] Their maximum reported length is 60 cm, with a common length of 25 cm. They are coastal fish found at depths to 370 m off the Bay of Biscay to south Morocco and the western Mediterranean.[3]

References

  1. Smith-Vaniz, W.F. (2015). "Trachurus picturatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2015: e.T198646A43156817. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198646A43156817.en. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Trachurus picturatus (Bowdich, 1825)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Trachurus picturatus" in FishBase. March 2012 version.


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