| Scomberoides | |
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| Double-spotted queenfish (S. lysan) | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Carangidae |
| Subfamily: | Scomberoidinae |
| Genus: |
Scomberoides Lacépède, 1801 |
| Type species | |
| Scomberoides noelii Lacepède, 1801
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Scomberoides is a genus of carangids, 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. [2]
Species
Currently, five species in this genus are recognized: [3]
- Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacépède, 1801 (Talang queenfish)
- Scomberoides lysan ( Forsskål, 1775) (doublespotted queenfish)
- Scomberoides pelagicus E.M. Abdussamad, 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, 2022 [4] (Deepbodied Queenfish)
- Scomberoides tala ( Cuvier, 1832) (barred queenfish)
- Scomberoides tol ( Cuvier, 1832) (needle-scaled queenfish)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Scomberoides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ 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. doi: 10.1016/0041-0101(72)90010-4. PMID 5072090. Abstract
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Scomberoides in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ 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).
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