Published December 31, 2008 | Version v1
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Scombridae

Description

Scombridae

Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier, 1832) —Wahoo

No specimen in MMF but record confirmed by numerous animals captured by sport fishing boats. * Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) —Bullet tuna

* Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) —Skipjack tuna * Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) —Atlantic bonito

* Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 —Striped mackerel Recorded from Madeira by Collette in Whitehead et al. (1986: 991) under the name Scomber japonicus (non Houttuyn, 1782). * Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 Atlantic mackerel * Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) —Albacore Thunnus albacares (Bonnaterre, 1788) —Yellowfin tuna * Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839) —Bigeye tuna

* Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Northern bluefin tuna

Notes

Published as part of Wirtz, Peter, Fricke, Ronald & Biscoito, Manuel José, 2008, The coastal fishes of Madeira Island — new records and an annotated check-list, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 1715 on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274128

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Scombridae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Risso, A. (1810) Ichthyologie de Nice, ou histoire naturelle des poissons du departement des Alpes Maritimes. F. Schoell, Paris. Ichthyol. Nice, i - xxxvi + 1 - 388, Pls. 1 - 11.