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Trachurus lathami (Rough scad; Jack mackerel)

Synonyms: Trachurus picturatus australis
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Wikipedia Abstract

Trachurus lathami is a species of fish in the family Carangidae and the genus Trachurus, the jack mackerels. Common names include rough scad and horse mackerel in English, as well as chinchard frappeur (French), chicharro garretón (Spanish), jurel (in Argentina and Uruguay), and carapau, garaçuma, surel, and xixarro (in Brazil). It is native to parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, including seas off the eastern coasts of North and South America and the Gulf of Mexico. This species is commercially fished for food.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Prey / Diet

Temora stylifera[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Boops boops (Bream)1
Cyclothone acclinidens (Bent - tooth bristlemouth)1
Opisthonema oglinum (Atlantic thread herring)1
Triphoturus mexicanus (Mexican lampfish)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Allogastrocotyle bivaginalis[6]
Gastrocotyle trachuri[6]
Monascus filiformis[6]
Pseudaxine cariacoensis[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diel feeding pattern and diet of rough scad Trachurus lathami Nichols, 1920 (Carangidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic, Maria Raquel de Carvalho and Lucy Satiko Hashimoto Soares, Neotropical Ichthyology, 4(4):419-426, 2006
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Seasonal variation in the diets of bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix (Pomatomidae) and striped weakfish, Cynoscion guatucupa (Sciaenidae) in southern Brazil: implications of food partitioning, Flavia M. Lucena, Teodoro Vaske, Jr., Jim R. Ellis & Carl M. O’Brien, Environmental Biology of Fishes 57: 423–434, 2000.
♦ 4Seasonal and size-related differences in diet of the Atlantic angel shark Squatina dumeril in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, Ivy E. Baremore, Debra J. Murie, John K. Carlson, Aquat Biol 8: 125–136, 2010
♦ 5ECOLOGY OF INSHORE LIZARDFISH, Synodus foetens, IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO, Sarah Ann Branson Jeffers, Master of Science thesis, University of West Florida, 2007
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0