Cololabis saira
Description
Cololabis saira (Brevoort, 1856).
Pacific Saury. To about 44 cm (17.3 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Pacific Ocean off Japan and Kuril Islands (Hubbs and Wisner 1980, Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984), to Olyutorskiy Bay in the western Bering Sea (Hubbs and Wisner 1980), to south-eastern Bering Sea (Brodeur 1988), Pacific Ocean south of Aleutian Islands, and offshore Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic and neritic epipelagic (Parin 1960); marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal (Suda et al. 2002), surface to 295 m (968 ft) (DFO), typically far offshore, although schools sometimes wash ashore (Chapman 1943).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scomberesocidae
- Genus
- Cololabis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Brevoort
- Species
- saira
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cololabis saira (Brevoort, 1856) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Hubbs, C. L. & Wisner, R. L. (1980) Revision of the sauries (Pisces, Scomberesocidae) with descriptions of two new genera and one new species. Fishery Bulletin, 77, 521 - 566.
- Masuda, H., Amaoka, K., Araga, C., Uyeno, T. & Yoshino, T. (Eds). (1984) The Fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Brodeur, R. D. (1988) Zoogeography and trophic ecology of the dominant epipelagic fishes in the northern North Pacific. Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, No. 26 (Part II), 1 - 27.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Parin, N. V. (1960) The range of the saury (Cololabis saira Brev. - Scomberesocidae, Pisces) and effects of oceanographic features on its distribution. Doklady Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 130, 649 - 652 [In Russian. Translation by Larry Penny, Ichthyological Laboratory, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.]
- Dyldin, Yu. V. & Orlov, A. M. (2017) Ichthyofauna of fresh and brackish waters of Sakhalin Island: an annotated list with taxonomic comments: 3. Gadidae - Cruptacanthodidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 57, 53 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945217010039
- Suda, Y., Inoue, T. & Uchida, H. (2002) Fish communities in the surf zone of a protected sandy beach at Doigahama, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science, 55, 81 - 96. https: // doi. org / 10.1006 / ecss. 2001.0888
- Chapman, W. M. (1943) The osteology of the Pacific saury, Cololabis saira. Copeia, 1943, 171 - 182.