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Selar (fish)

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Selar
Bigeye scad (S. crumenophthalmus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Carangidae
Subfamily: Caranginae
Genus: Selar
Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Caranx boops
(Cuvier, 1833)[1]

Selar is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae which includes the scads, jacks, pompanos, trevallies and horse mackerels.[2] The generic name, Selar, is the local name for the oxeye scad in Jakarta.[3]

Species

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There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Selar boops (Cuvier, 1833) Oxeye scad Indo-Pacific.
Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) Bigeye scad Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Rapa, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia. Eastern Pacific: Mexico to Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean to São Paulo, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde to southern Angola

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selar". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Selar". FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019). "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 November 2019.