Scomberoides

Scomberoides
Temporal range: Early Miocene–present
Double-spotted queenfish (S. lysan)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Carangiformes
Suborder: Carangoidei
Family: Trachinotidae
Subfamily: Scomberoidinae
Genus: Scomberoides
Lacépède, 1801
Type species
Scomberoides commersonnianus
Lacepède, 1801

Scomberoides is a genus of Trachinotidae, known as the queenfishes, native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The species in this genus may be venomous with the venom found on the spines of the dorsal and anal fins.

Species

Currently, five species in this genus are recognized:

Three fossil species are also known:

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Scomberoides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  2. ↑ Bruce W.Halstead; Dana D.Danielson; Wayne J.Baldwin & Paul C.Engen (1972). "Morphology of the venom apparatus of the leatherback fish Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier)". Toxicon. 10 (3): 249–250. Bibcode:1972Txcn...10..249H. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(72)90010-4. PMID 5072090. Abstract
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Scomberoides". FishBase. February 2013 version.
  4. 1 2 Abdussamad, E.M., A. Gopalakrishnan, K.G. Mini, S. Sukumaran, P.R. Divya, T.B. Retheesh, A.A. Muhammed, N.V. Dipti, A.R. Akhil, T. Thomas and K.D. Jacob: Description of a new species of queenfish, Scomberoides pelagicus from Indian seas. J. Environ. Biol., 43, 105-114 (2022).
  5. ↑ Ohe, Fumio; Furuhashi, Yoshihiro (1977). "A new fossil carangid fish from the Miocene Toyooka Formation, Okutango Peninsula, Kyoto Prefecture, central Japan" (PDF). Bull. Mizunami Fossil Mus. (4): 73–85.
  6. ↑ Uyeno, Teruya; Suda, Yusuke (1991). "A New Miocene Queenfish of the Genus Scomberoides (Pisces, Carangidae) from Tottori, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. C. 17 (2): 41–48.
  7. ↑ Bannikov, A. F. (1984). "The genus Scomberoides (Teleostei) in the Miocene of the Caucasus". Paleontological Journal. 18 (1): 101–103.