Scomber japonicus Houttuyn 1782
Description
Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782.
Chub Mackerel, Pacific Chub Mackerel, or Pacific Mackerel. To nearly 63.5 cm (25 in) TL (Fitch 1956). Western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Collette and Nauen 1983), southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh 1998), and south-eastern Kamchatka (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Gulf of California (Castro Hernández and Santana Ortega 2000) to Chile (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos (Collette and Nauen 1983). Coastal pelagic to epipelagic or mesopelagic over continental slope; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to about 300 m (984 ft) (Collette and Nauen 1983); sometimes near shore in surf (Love et al. 2005). Previously treated as conspecific with Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789, of the Atlantic (Collette 1999, 2003).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Scomber
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Houttuyn
- Species
- japonicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Fitch, J. E. (1956) Pacific mackerel. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Progress Report, 1956, 29 - 32. [Cited in Castro Hernandez and Santana Ortega 2000.]
- Collette, B. B. & Nauen, C. E. (1983) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 2. Scombrids of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Volume 2. FAO, Rome.
- Savinykh, V. F. (1998) Nekton composition of near-surface waters of the subarctic front zone in the northwest part of the Pacific Ocean according to the data of drift-net catches. Journal of Ichthyology, 38, 18 - 27.
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]
- Castro Hernandez, J. J. & Santana Ortega, A. T. (2000) Synopsis of biological data on the chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782). FAO Fisheries Synopsis 157. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.
- 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
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Collette, B. B. (1999) Mackerels, molecules, and morphology. In: Seret, B. & Sire, J. - Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5 th Indo- Pacific Fish Conference, Noumea-New Caledonia, 1997. Societe Francaise d'Ichtyologie, Paris, pp. 149 - 164.
- Collette, B. B. (2003) Family Scombridae Rafinesque 1815. Mackerels, tunas, and bonitos. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 19.