Scomberoides

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Carangidae
Genus: Scomberoides
Species: S. commersonnianus – S. lysan – S. tala – S. tol
Name

Scomberoides Lacepède, 1801

Scomberoides lysan

References

Scomberoides – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Scomberoides species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 10/2023.

Vernacular names
English: Leatherjackets

Scomberoides is a genus of carangids, known as the queenfishes, native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The species in this genus may be venomous with the venom found on the spines of the dorsal and anal fins.[2]
Species

Currently, five species in this genus are recognized:[3]

Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacépède, 1801 (Talang queenfish)
Scomberoides lysan (Forsskål, 1775) (doublespotted queenfish)
Scomberoides pelagicus E.M. Abdussamad, Gopalakrishnan, K.G. Mini, S. Sukumaran, P.R. Divya, T.B. Retheesh, A.A. Muhammed, N.V. Dipti, A.R. Akhil, T. Thomas and K.D. Jacob, 2022[4] (Deepbodied Queenfish)
Scomberoides tala (Cuvier, 1832) (barred queenfish)
Scomberoides tol (Cuvier, 1832) (needle-scaled queenfish)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Scomberoides". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
Bruce W.Halstead; Dana D.Danielson; Wayne J.Baldwin & Paul C.Engen (1972). "Morphology of the venom apparatus of the leatherback fish Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier)". Toxicon. 10 (3): 249–250. doi:10.1016/0041-0101(72)90010-4. PMID 5072090. Abstract
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Scomberoides in FishBase. February 2013 version.
Abdussamad, E.M., A. Gopalakrishnan, K.G. Mini, S. Sukumaran, P.R. Divya, T.B. Retheesh, A.A. Muhammed, N.V. Dipti, A.R. Akhil, T. Thomas and K.D. Jacob: Description of a new species of queenfish, Scomberoides pelagicus from Indian seas. J. Environ. Biol., 43, 105-114 (2022).