''Rastrelliger'' is a

mackerel Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment. ...

genus in the family

Scombridae The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the but ...

. The three species of ''Rastrelliger'' together with the four species of ''

Scomber ''Scomber'' is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Scombridae living in the open ocean found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. The genus ''Scomber'' and the genus ''Rastrelliger'' comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mack ...

'' comprise the

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...

Scombrini Scombrini, commonly called the true mackerels, is a tribe of ray-finned bony fishes in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family it shares with the Spanish mackerel, tuna and bonito tribes, plus the butterfly kingfish. Genera This tribe c ...

, known as the "true mackerels".

Species

The three species which comprise ''Rastrelliger'' are: * ''

Rastrelliger brachysoma The short mackerel or shortbodied mackerel (''Rastrelliger brachysoma'') is a species of mackerel in the family Scombridae. Its habitat is the shallow waters of Southeast Asia and Melanesia, feeding mainly on small zooplankton. It is of major im ...

'' ( Bleeker, 1851) (short mackerel) * ''

Rastrelliger faughni The island mackerel (''Rastrelliger faughni'') is a species of true mackerel in the scombrid family (Scombridae) from the Indo-Pacific. Their maximum reported length is 20 cm, and the maximum reported weight is 0.75 kg. While the FAO r ...

'', Matsui, 1967 (island mackerel) * ''

Rastrelliger kanagurta The Indian mackerel (''Rastrelliger kanagurta'') or bigmouth mackerel is a species of mackerel in the family Scombridae. It is commonly found in the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, West Pacific oceans, and their surrounding seas. It i ...

'', (

Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...

, 1816) (Indian mackerel)

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Marine fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Edwin Chapin Starks {{Scombroidei-stub