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True mackerels

Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Scombridae
Subfamily:	Scombrinae
Tribe:	Scombrini Bonaparte, 1831
Genera
Scomber Linnaeus, 1758 Rastrelliger Jordan & Starks in Jordan & Dickerson, 1908

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]

Genera

This tribe consists of seven species in two genera:

Scomber (4 species)	Atlantic mackerel Atlantic chub mackerel Blue mackerel Chub mackerel
Rastrelliger (3 species)	Short mackerel Indian mackerel Island mackerel

Acanthocybium (1 species)	Wahoo
Grammatorcynus (2 species)	Double-lined mackerel Shark mackerel
Scomberomorus (18 species)	Atlantic Spanish mackerel Australian spotted mackerel Broadbarred king mackerel Cero mackerel Chinese mackerel Indo-Pacific king mackerel Japanese Spanish mackerel Kanadi kingfish King mackerel Korean mackerel Monterrey Spanish mackerel Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Pacific sierra Papuan seerfish Queensland school mackerel Serra Spanish mackerel Streaked Spanish mackerel West African Spanish mackerel

Jack mackerels (15 species)	Atlantic horse mackerel Blue jack mackerel Cape horse mackerel Chilean jack mackerel Cunene horse mackerel Greenback horse mackerel Japanese jack mackerel Mediterranean horse mackerel Pacific jack mackerel Yellowtail horse mackerel African scad Arabian scad Crozet scad Rough scad
Snake mackerels (5 species)	Black snake mackerel Blacksail snake mackerel Snake mackerel Violet snake mackerel White snake mackerel
Hexagrammidae (2 species)	Okhotsk atka mackerel Atka mackerel

Other Scombrids: Butterfly kingfish (butterfly mackerel); Tunas (tribe Thunnini); Bonitos (tribe Sardini)

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