Jack mackerels or saurels
[ are marine fish in the genus ''Trachurus'' of the family ]Carangidae
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish which includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads. It is the largest of the six families included within the order Carangiformes. Some authorities classify it as the only family ...
. The name of the genus derives from the Greek
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words ''trachys'' ("rough") and ''oura'' ("tail"). Some species, such as ''T. murphyi'', are harvested in purse seine nets, and overfishing
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(harvesting beyond sustainable levels) has sometimes occurred.
It is often used in Japanese cuisine
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, where it is called ''aji'', in Turkish cuisine
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, where it is called ''istavrit'', and in Portuguese Cuisine
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''Culinária Portuguesa'', by António-Maria De O ...
, where it is called ''carapau''.
Species
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The genus ''Trachurus'' was defined in 1810 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, who called the type species ''Trachurus saurus''. taxonomy (biology), Taxonomists later determined that ''T. saurus'' was in fact the same species as one described earlier as ''Scomber trachurus'', defined in 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
by Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
. Under the rules of binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
, that species is now known as '' Trachurus trachurus'', commonly known as the Atlantic horse mackerel.
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
References
* Fitch JE (1956
"Jack mackerel"
''CalCOFI Reports'', 5: 27–28.
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Caranginae
Extant Eocene first appearances
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Marine fish genera