Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scombridae > Scomberomorus > Scomberomorus tritor

Scomberomorus tritor (West African Spanish mackerel; West African mackerel; Spanish mackerel; Mackerel)

Synonyms: Apolectus immunis; Cybium tritor; Scomberomorus argyreus
Language: Adioukrou; Aizi; Arabic, Hassaniya; Creole, Portuguese; Danish; Fon GBE; Fon Gbe; Fon GBE; French; Greek; Mandarin Chinese; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serer; Spanish; Susu; Swedish; Unknown; Wolof

Wikipedia Abstract

The West African Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus tritor) is a species of fish in the family Scombridae. Specimens have been recorded at up to 100 cm in length, and weighing up to 6 kg. Coloration is bluish-green on the back fading to silvery on the sides marked with about 3 rows of vertically elongate orange spots. It is found in the eastern Atlantic, along the Atlantic coasts of Africa from Canary Islands and Senegal to the Gulf of Guinea and Baía dos Tigres, Angola. It is rarely found in the northern Mediterranean Sea, along the coasts of France and Italy.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.275 lbs (3.30 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  5 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous

Prey / Diet

Ethmalosa fimbriata (Bonga shad)[4]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0