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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scomber japonicus

Pacific mackerel (chub mackerel)

WoRMS 127022ITIS 172412key worms:127022
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172412 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · kstierhoff · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scomber japonicus
Pacific mackerel64 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Scomber japonicus
Photo · Dragan Maksimovic · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The chub mackerel, Pacific mackerel, or Pacific chub mackerel is a species of fish in the tuna and mackerel family, Scombridae. This species of mackerel closely resembles the Atlantic chub mackerel.W CalCOFI holds 2,988 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva and egg.R

2,988
observations
2,988
records
2,779
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2,988 obs · 2,779 events · 1951–2022 · larva · egg
    name used: Scomber japonicus Pacific mackerel (chub mackerel) · code 574

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:127022%22