mackerel

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Scomber scombrus, common mackerel, shiner

important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales

Scomber colias, Spanish mackerel

medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Scomber japonicus, chub mackerel, tinker

small mackerel found nearly worldwide

Acanthocybium solandri, wahoo

large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide

Spanish mackerel

any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus

Scomberomorus cavalla, cavalla, cero, king mackerel

large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast southward to Brazil

Scomberomorus maculatus

a large commercially important mackerel of the Atlantic coastal waters of North America

Scomberomorus regalis, cero, kingfish, pintado

large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters

Scomberomorus sierra, sierra

a Spanish mackerel of western North America

Type of:

scombroid, scombroid fish

important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters