Cololabis saira (Brevoort 1856)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Beloniformes
- family
- Scomberesocidae
- genus
- Cololabis
- species
- Cololabis saira
description
Pacific Saury. To about 44 cm (17.3 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Pacific Ocean off Japan and Kuril Islands (Hubbs and Wisner 1980, Yoshino in Masuda et al. 1984), to Olyutorskiy Bay in the western Bering Sea (Hubbs and Wisner 1980), to south-eastern Bering Sea (Brodeur 1988), Pacific Ocean south of Aleutian Islands, and offshore Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Oceanic and neritic epipelagic (Parin 1960); marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal (Suda et al. 2002), surface to 295 m (968 ft) (DFO), typically far offshore, although schools sometimes wash ashore (Chapman 1943).
Name
- Homonyms
- Cololabis saira (Brevoort 1856)