Selar (fish)

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Selar
Bigeye scad.jpg
Bigeye scad (S. crumenophthalmus)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Carangoidei
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

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

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Selar boops Cape York.jpg Selar boops (Cuvier, 1833)Oxeye scadIndo-Pacific.
Fish4443 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793)Bigeye scadIndo-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

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Selar". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  2. 1 2 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.


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