''Cololabis'' is a genus of
sauries found in the eastern and northern
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
. The name is derived from the Greek word ''kolos'', meaning 'short', and the Latin word ''labis'', meaning '
forceps', referring to the short beak of the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
''Scombresox brevirostris''.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Cololabis adocetus''
J. E. Böhlke, 1951 (Saury)
* ''
Cololabis saira''
Brevoort, 1856 (
Pacific saury)
References
Scomberesocidae
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
Marine fish genera
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