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Scombridae
Spanish mackerel
Scomberomorus maculatus
Three rows of dark elliptical spots on silver flanks
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
LargeSpanish mackerel is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in coastal waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Scombridae
- Genus
- Scomberomorus
- Maximum length
- 91 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ) to Cape Cod to Miami (USA) and Gulf of Mexico coasts from Florida, USA to Yucatan, Mexico. Three species namely: Scomberomorus tritor in eastern Atlantic, Scomberomorus sierra in eastern Pacific, and Scomberomorus brasiliensis in the Caribbean and Atlantic coast of South America have often been confused with this species. Absent in the Bahamas (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
