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Indian Mackerel; Identity

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/613/
 
Title Indian Mackerel; Identity
 
Creator Rao, K Virabhadra
 
Subject Mackerel
 
Description The family Scombridae (under the order Perciformes of sub-class Actinopterygii) comprises four
subfamilies viz., Gasterochismatinae, Thunninae, Scomberomorinae and Scombrinae. The first subfamily
includes just one member, Gasterochisma melampus Richardson, popularly known as the butterfly mackerel
which has a southern and disjunct distribution, occurring on coast of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia
and Argentina. Thunninae includes a large assemblage of species, called tunnies coming under the genera
Auxis Cuvier, Cybiosarda Whitley, Sarda Cuvier, Gymnosarda Gill, Thunnus South, Allothunnus
Serventy, Orcynopsis Gill, Katsuwonus Kishinouye and Euthynnus Jordan and Gilbert. The genus
Thunnus comprises several subgenera, viz., Thunnus S.Str., Parathunnus Kishinouye, Kishinoella
Jordan and Hubbs and Neothunnus Kishinouye.Scomberomorinae has the seer fishes under the genus
Scomberomorus Lacepede and the Wahoo under Acanthocybium Gill. The subfamilyScombrinae includes
the chub mackerels or the true mackerels and the double-lined mackerel under the genera Scomber
Linnaeus, Rastrelliger Jordan and Starks and Grammatorcynus Gill. Most members of these four
subfamilies are well distributed in the Indo-Pacific region. Some, however, are restricted in their distribution
to temperate regions only as Scomber scombrus, Orcynopsis unicolor and Allothunnus fallai Serventy.
The genus Rastrelliger has two valid species i.e. R. kanagurta (Cuvier) and R. brachysoma (Bleeker)
occurring in the seas aound India, the former being by far the commonest and most abundant mackerel
species in this region.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Contributor Nair, R V
 
Date 1970
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/613/1/Bulletin_24-Virabha.pdf
Rao, K Virabhadra (1970) Indian Mackerel; Identity. In: CMFRI Bulletin No.24. CMFRI, pp. 3-14.