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Trachurus mediterraneus (Mediterranean scad; Mediterranean horse mackerel; Horse mackerel; Common scad; Black Sea horse mackerel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Mediterranean horse mackerel (Trachurus mediterraneus) is a species of mackerel in the family Carangidae. The Mediterranean horse mackerel can be found in the eastern Atlantic from Bay of Biscay to Mauritania, including the Mediterranean Sea. In the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, it is presented by subspecies T. m. ponticus. It is a benthopelagic subtropical marine fish, up to 60 cm in length. It is commercially fished.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik 13876 Ukraine  

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Diet Composition of Horse Mackerel, Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus Aleev, 1956 (Osteichthyes: Carangidae) in the Bulgarian Black Sea Waters, Maria Hristova Yankova, Violin Stoyanov Raykov, Petya Bogomilova Frateva, Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 8: 321-327 (2008)
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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