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Rastrelliger
Rastrelliger kanagurta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Scombridae
Tribe:	Scombrini
Genus:	Rastrelliger Jordan and Starks in Jordan and Dickerson, 1908
Type species
Scomber brachysoma Bleeker, 1851
Species
See text.

Rastrelliger is a mackerel genus in the family Scombridae. The three species of Rastrelliger together with the four species of Scomber comprise the tribe Scombrini, 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)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Rastrelliger". FishBase. February 2018 version.

External links

Media related to Rastrelliger at Wikimedia Commons

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