Rastrelliger | |
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Rastrelliger kanagurta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Family: | Scombridae |
Tribe: | Scombrini |
Genus: | Rastrelliger Jordan and Starks in Jordan and Dickerson, 1908 |
Type species | |
Scomber brachysoma Bleeker, 1851
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Species | |
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Rastrelliger is a mackerel genus in the family Scombridae. The three species of Rastrelliger together with the four species of Scomber comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels".
The three species which comprise Rastrelliger are:[1]