Selar (fish)

Selar
	Bigeye scad (S. crumenophthalmus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Family:	Carangidae
Subfamily:	Caranginae
Genus:	Selar; Bleeker, 1851
Type species
	Caranx boops; (Cuvier, 1833)[1]

Selar is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae which includes the scads, jacks, pompanos, trevallies and horse mackerels.[2] The generic name, Selar, is the local name for the oxeye scad in Jakarta.[3]

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]

Selar boops (Cuvier, 1833) (Oxeye scad)
Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793) (Bigeye scad)

References

Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Selar". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Selar in FishBase. August 2019 version.
Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019). "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

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[CofF-1] Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Selar". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2019.

[Fishbase-2] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Selar in FishBase. August 2019 version.

[ETYFish-3] Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (10 August 2019). "Order CARANGIFORMES (Jacks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 November 2019.