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Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758

To FishBase images (<i>Scomber scombrus</i>, Denmark, by Svensen, E.)

To FishBase images (Scomber scombrus, Denmark, by Svensen, E.)

AphiaID

127023 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127023)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Scomber Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Scomber Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Scomber glauciscus Pallas, 1814 · unaccepted

Scomber punctatus Couch, 1849 · unaccepted

Scomber scomber Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (misspelling)

Scomber scriptus Couch, 1863 · unaccepted

Scomber vernalis Mitchill, 1815 · unaccepted

Scomber vulgaris Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted

Scomber vulgaris Wood, 1837 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Scomber scombrus japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844 accepted as Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 297 [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Distribution Labrador to Cape Lookout, N.C.

Distribution Labrador to Cape Lookout, N.C. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127023 on 2024-11-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 297 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Scomber scomber Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Scomber glauciscus Pallas, 1814) Pallas, P. S. (1814). Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones anatomen atque icones plurimorum.3 vols.[1811-1814]. Academia Scientiarum, Petropolis [Sankt Petersburg]. v. 3: i-vii + 1-428 + index (I-CXXV), Pls. 1, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 21.
page(s): 215, Pl. 46 (fig. 1) [details]

original description (of Scomber punctatus Couch, 1849) Couch, J. (1849). Description of Scomber punctatus, a species of mackerel not hitherto recognized by naturalists. The Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History. v. 7 (Appendix, art. 4): xxix-xxxi.
page(s): xxix, Fig. [details]

original description (of Scomber scriptus Couch, 1863) Couch, J. (1963). The history of the fishes of the British islands v. 2. 1-265, Pls. 58-120.
page(s): 84, Pl. 81 (fig. 2) [details]

original description (of Scomber vernalis Mitchill, 1815) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York. v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6.
page(s): 423 [details]

original description (of Scomber vulgaris Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 217 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Fish trawl survey: ICES North Sea International Bottom Trawl Survey for commercial fish species. ICES Database of trawl surveys (DATRAS). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010., available online at http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Smithsonian Institution Press. 1-748. [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 297 [details] Available for editors

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ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Feeds on plankton, amphipods, euphausiids, shrimps, small squid and crab and fish larvae [details]

Distribution Labrador to Cape Lookout, N.C. [details]

Habitat Pelagic species found to depths of 200 m, overwinter near bottoms, move upward in spring. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Importance Social- Highly commercial, gamefish [details]

Predators Porbeagles, dogfish, Atlantic cod, bluefin tuna, swordfish, porpoises and harbour seals [details]

Reproduction Spawn from mid June to mid July, open water/ Substratum egg scatterers, pelagic eggs and larvae [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Albanian	skushaskumbrishkombrikorbazi	[details]
Breton	brillbreghel	[details]
Bulgarian	Черноморска скумрия [from synonym]	[details]
Catalan	verat	[details]
Czech	makrela obecná	[details]
Danish	makrel	[details]
Dutch	makreelAtlantische makreel	[details]
English	mackerelAtlantic mackerel	[details]
Finnish	makrilli	[details]
French	maquereau communmaquereau bleumaquereau	[details]
Galician	xardacorreolocabala	[details]
German	Makrele [from synonym]Atlantische Makrele	[details]
Icelandic	makríll	[details]
Irish	ronnach	[details]
Italian	sgombromaccarellolacerto	[details]
Modern Greek (1453-)	Σκουμπρί	[details]
Norwegian	makrell	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	makrell	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	makrell	[details]
Polish	makrela atlantyckamakrela	[details]
Portuguese	sardacavala	[details]
Romanian	scrumbie	[details]
Russian	Скумбрия атлантическаяskumbriyamakrel	[details]
Scottish Gaelic	ronnach an Atlantaigh	[details]
Slovenian	skuša	[details]
Spanish	caballa	[details]
Swedish	makrill	[details]
Turkish	uskumru	[details]
Ukrainian	Скумбрія атлантична	[details]
Welsh	macrell	[details]