Scombrini
| True mackerels | |
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| Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Scombroidei |
| Family: | Scombridae |
| Subfamily: | Scombrinae |
| Tribe: | Scombrini Bonaparte, 1831 |
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Scombrini, commonly called the true mackerels, is a tribe of ray-finned bony fishes in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family it shares with the Spanish mackerel, tuna and bonito tribes, plus the butterfly kingfish.[1]
This tribe consists of seven species in two genera:
- Scomber Linnaeus, 1758
- Scomber australasicus Cuvier, 1832, Blue mackerel
- Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789, Atlantic Chub Mackerel
- Scomber japonicus, Houttuyn, 1782, Chub mackerel
- Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758, Atlantic mackerel
- Scomber Linnaeus, 1758
- Rastrelliger Jordan & Starks in Jordan & Dickerson, 1908
- Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker, 1851), Short mackerel
- Rastrelliger faughni Matsui, 1967, Island mackerel
- Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816), Indian mackerel
- Rastrelliger Jordan & Starks in Jordan & Dickerson, 1908
