Selar (fish)
Appearance
Selar | |
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Bigeye scad (S. crumenophthalmus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Carangiformes |
Family: | Carangidae |
Subfamily: | Caranginae |
Genus: | Selar Bleeker, 1851 |
Type species | |
Caranx boops |
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
[edit]There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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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
[edit]- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selar". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Selar". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ 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.