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Spanish mackerel

Tribe of fishes

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Taxonomy

The following cladogram shows the most likely evolutionary relationships between the Spanish mackerels and the tunas, mackerels, bonitos, and butterfly kingfish.

This tribe comprises 21 species in three genera:

  • Acanthocybium (Gill, 1862)
    • A. solandri (Cuvier, 1832), wahoo
  • Grammatorcynus (Gill, 1862)
    • G. bicarinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825), shark mackerel
    • G. bilineatus (Rüppell, 1836), double-lined mackerel
  • Scomberomorus (Lacepède, 1801)
    • S. brasiliensis Collette, Russo & Zavala-Camin, 1978, Serra Spanish mackerel
    • S. cavalla (Cuvier, 1829), king mackerel
    • S. commerson (Lacépède, 1800), narrow-barred Spanish mackerel
    • S. concolor (Lockington, 1879), Monterrey Spanish mackerel
    • S. guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Indo-Pacific king mackerel
    • S. koreanus (Kishinouye, 1915), Korean seerfish
    • S. lineolatus (Cuvier, 1829), streaked seerfish
    • S. maculatus (Mitchill, 1815), Atlantic Spanish mackerel
    • S. multiradiatus Munro, 1964, Papuan seerfish
    • S. munroi Collette & Russo, 1980, Australian spotted mackerel
    • S. niphonius (Cuvier, 1832), Japanese Spanish mackerel
    • S. plurilineatus Fourmanoir, 1966, Kanadi kingfish
    • S. queenslandicus Munro, 1943, Queensland school mackerel
    • S. regalis (Bloch, 1793), Cero mackerel
    • S. semifasciatus (Macleay, 1883), broadbarred king mackerel
    • S. sierra Jordan & Starks, 1895, Pacific sierra
    • S. sinensis (Lacépède, 1800), Chinese seerfish
    • S. tritor (Cuvier, 1832), West African Spanish mackerel

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