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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scomber

WoRMS 126063ITIS 172411key worms:126063
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172411 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Scomber australasicus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Mackerel, caught close to the western edge of the Belgian part of the North Sea, Belgium.
Photo · Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

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 mackerels".W CalCOFI holds 2,988 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022.R

2,988
observations
2,988
records
1951–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126063")