Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scombridae > Scomber > Scomber australasicus

Scomber australasicus (Spotted mackerel; Spotted chub mackerel; Southern mackerel; Slimy mackerel; Pacific mackerel; Japanese mackerel; Common mackerel; Chub mackerel; Blue mackerel; Mackerel)

Synonyms: Pneumatophorus japonicus tapeinocephalus; Pneumatophorus tapeinocephalus; Scomber antarcticus; Scomber tapeinocephalus
Language: Bikol; Cebuano; Chavacano; Danish; Davawenyo; French; Hiligaynon; Ilokano; Japanese; Korean; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Maori; Pangasinan; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Surigaonon; Swedish; Tagalog; Thai; Visayan; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue mackerel, Japanese mackerel, Pacific mackerel, slimy mackerel, or spotted chub mackerel (Scomber australasicus) is a fish of the family Scombridae, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean from Japan south to Australia and New Zealand, in the eastern Pacific (Hawaii and Socorro Island, Mexico), and the Indo-West Pacific: the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden, in surface waters down to 200 m (660 ft). In Japanese, it is known as goma saba (胡麻鯖 sesame mackerel). Its length is between 30 and 65 cm (12 and 25.5 in), and weighs a little over 1 kilogram (2.2 lb).
View Wikipedia Record: Scomber australasicus

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Engraulis japonicus (Japanese anchovy)[2]
Maurolicus muelleri (Silvery lightfish)[2]

Predators

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 3John Stewart, Julian Hughes, Jaime McAllister, Jeremy Lyle and Murray MacDonald, Australian salmon (Arripis trutta): Population structure, reproduction, diet and composition of commercial and recreational catches Industry & Investment NSW, FRDC Project Nos. 2006/018 and 2008/056, March 2011
♦ 4Feeding ecology and niche segregation in oceanic top predators off eastern Australia, Jock W. Young, Matt J. Lansdell, Robert A. Campbell, Scott P. Cooper, Francis Juanes, Michaela A. Guest, Mar Biol (2010) 157:2347–2368
♦ 5Huveneers, C., Otway, N. M., Gibbs, S. E., and Harcourt, R. G. 2007. Quantitative diet assessment of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in New South Wales, Australia. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1272–1281.
♦ 6Feeding Habits of the Pantropical Spotted Dolphin, Stenella attenuata, off the Eastern Coast of Taiwan, Ming-Chih Wang, William A. Walker, Kwang-Tsao Shao and Lien-Siang Chou, Zoological Studies 42(2): 368-378 (2003)
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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