Yellowtail horse mackerel

Yellowtail horse mackerel

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Carangidae
Genus:	Trachurus
Species:	T. novaezelandiae
Binomial name
*Trachurus novaezelandiae* J. Richardson, 1843

The yellowtail horse mackerel (Trachurus novaezelandiae) is a jack in the family Carangidae found around Australia and New Zealand at depths to 500 m. Its length is up to 50 cm.

The yellowtail horse mackerel is very similar to the greenback horse mackerel, but has 68 to 73 lateral line scutes, compared with 76 to 82 for the greenback horse mackerel.

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Trachurus novaezelandiae" in FishBase. May 2006 version.

Mackerel

True mackerels
(tribe Scombrini)

Scomber	(4 species) Atlantic mackerel Atlantic chub mackerel Blue mackerel Chub mackerel

Rastrelliger	(3 species) Short mackerel Indian mackerel Island mackerel

Spanish mackerels
(tribe Scomberomorini)

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 King mackerel Korean mackerel Monterey Spanish mackerel Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel Pacific Sierra Papuan Spanish mackerel Queen mackerel Queensland school mackerel Serra Spanish mackerel Streaked Spanish mackerel West African Spanish mackerel

Non-Scombrid
mackerels

Jack mackerels	(15 species) Atlantic horse mackerel Blue jack mackerel Cape horse mackerel Chilean jack mackerel Cunene horse mackerel Greenback horse mackerel Japanese horse mackerel Mediterranean horse mackerel Pacific jack mackerel Yellowtail horse mackerel African scad Arabian scad Crozet scad Rough scad Trachurus aleevi

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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