Korean mackerel

Korean mackerel
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Scombridae
Tribe: Scomberomorini
Genus: Scomberomorus
Species: S. koreanus
Binomial name
Scomberomorus koreanus
(Kishinouye, 1915)
Synonyms[2]
  • Cybium koreanum, Kishinouye, 1915

The Korean mackerel, Scomberomorus koreanus, also known as the Korean seerfish, is a ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, better known as the mackerel family. More specifically, this fish is a member of the tribe Scomberomorini, the Spanish mackerels.

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