Scombrini, commonly called the true mackerels, is a tribe of ray-finned in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family it shares with the Spanish mackerel, tuna and bonito tribes, plus the butterfly kingfish.
Genera
This tribe consists of seven species in two
genera:
- * Scomber Carl Linnaeus, 1758
- ** Scomber australasicus Georges Cuvier, 1832, Blue mackerel
- ** Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789, Atlantic chub mackerel
- ** Scomber japonicus, Houttuyn, 1782, Chub mackerel
- ** Scomber scombrus Carl Linnaeus, 1758, Atlantic mackerel
- * Rastrelliger Jordan & Starks in Jordan & Dickerson, 1908
- ** Rastrelliger brachysoma (Pieter Bleeker, 1851), Short mackerel
- ** Rastrelliger faughni Tetsuo Matsui, 1967, Island mackerel
- ** Rastrelliger kanagurta (Georges Cuvier, 1816), Indian mackerel
See also
