''Rastrelliger'' is a mackerel genus in the family

Scombridae The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butterf ...

. The three species of ''Rastrelliger'' together with the four species of ''

Scomber ''Scomber'' is a genus of fish in the family Scombridae living in the open ocean found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus ''Scomber'' and the genus '' Rastrelliger'' comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels". Thes ...

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tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

Scombrini 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. This tribe consists o ...

, known as the "true mackerels".

Species

The three species which comprise ''Rastrelliger'' are: * '' Rastrelliger brachysoma'' ( Bleeker, 1851) (short mackerel) * '' Rastrelliger faughni'', Matsui, 1967 (island mackerel) * '' Rastrelliger kanagurta'', ( Cuvier, 1816) (Indian mackerel)

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Marine fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Edwin Chapin Starks {{Scombroidei-stub