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Decapterus
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Decapterus

Decapterus is a genus of marine fishes of jack family, Carangidae, commonly known as mackerel scads, round scads, or horse mackerel. They are found throughout the world.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 11 known species

Mackerel Scad

speciesDecapterus macarellus

Cigar Minnow

speciesDecapterus punctatus

Koheru

speciesDecapterus koheru

Japanese Scad

speciesDecapterus maruadsi

Temperate Scad

speciesDecapterus muroadsi

Indian Scad

speciesDecapterus russelli

Slender Scad

speciesDecapterus macrosoma

Redtail Scad

speciesDecapterus kurroides

Rough-ear Scad

speciesDecapterus tabl

Akaads' Scad

speciesDecapterus akaadsi

Decapterus smithvanizi

speciesDecapterus smithvanizi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 87865.