Scomberoides is a genus of Trachinotidae, 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. Abstract
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 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). (Deepbodied Queenfish) Scomberoides tala (Cuvier, 1832) (barred queenfish) Scomberoides tol (Cuvier, 1832) (needle-scaled queenfish) Three fossil species are also known:
†Scomberoides inensis (Ohe & Furuhashi, 1977) - Middle Miocene of Japan †Scomberoides maruoi Uyeno & Suda, 1991 - Middle Miocene of Japan †Scomberoides spinosus (Smirnov, 1936) - Early to Middle Miocene of Crimea (Ukraine), the North Caucasus (Russia), and Azerbaijan
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