Scomberoides Explained

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.^[1]

Species

Currently, five species in this genus are recognized:

• 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^[2] (Deepbodied Queenfish)
• Scomberoides tala (Cuvier, 1832) (barred queenfish)
• Scomberoides tol (Cuvier, 1832) (needle-scaled queenfish)

Notes and References

1. Bruce W.Halstead . Dana D.Danielson . Wayne J.Baldwin . Paul C.Engen . amp . Morphology of the venom apparatus of the leatherback fish Scomberoides sanctipetri (Cuvier) . 1972 . Toxicon . 10 . 3 . 249–250 . 10.1016/0041-0101(72)90010-4. 5072090 . Abstract
2. 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).