Decapterus muroadsi (Temminck & Schlegel 1844)
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Carangidae
- genus
- Decapterus
- species
- Decapterus muroadsi
description
Amberstripe Scad or Mexican Scad. To about 55 cm (21.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan and East China Sea (Gushiken in Masuda et al. 1984); Pacific Grove, central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Peru (Watson et al. in Moser 1996), Easter Island (Pequeño 1989), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); apparently not in Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: surface to 320 m (1,050 ft) (Mundy 2005). Includes Decapterus hypodus Gill, 1862, and Decapterus scombrinus (Valenciennes, 1846) as junior synonyms.