''Scomberesox'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
sauries
Sauries are fish of the family Scomberesocidae. There are two genera, each containing two species. The name Scomberesocidae is derived from the ''scomber'', which in turn is derived from the Greek ''skombros'', meaning "mackerel", and the Latin ...
. It is one of two in the family Scomberesocidae. The generic name ''Scomberesox'' is a he name id a compound of ''scomber'', which in turn is derived from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''skombros'', meaning "
mackerel
Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment.
...
", and the
Latin
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''esox'' meaning
pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus o ...
.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Scomberesox saurus''
(Walbaum, 1792) (Atlantic saury)
* ''
Scomberesox scombroides''
( J. Richardson, 1843) (King gar)
* ''
Scomberesox simulans''
( C. L. Hubbs & Wisner, 1980) (Dwarf saury)
References
Scomberesocidae
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