Rastrelliger

Rastrelliger
Rastrelliger kanagurta at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Japan
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scombridae
Tribe:	Scombrini
Genus:	Rastrelliger Jordan and Starks in Jordan and Dickerson, 1908
Species
See text.

Rastrelliger is a mackerel genus in the family Scombridae. The three species of Rastrelliger together with the four species of Scomber comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels".

Species

• Short mackerel, Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker, 1851).
• Island mackerel, Rastrelliger faughni Matsui, 1967.
• Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816).

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