Yellowtail horse mackerel

Yellowtail horse mackerel

Taxobox
name = Yellowtail horse mackerel



image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Carangidae
genus = "Trachurus"
species = "T. novaezelandiae"
binomial = "Trachurus novaezelandiae"
binomial_authority = Richardson, 1843
The yellowtail horse mackerel, "Trachurus novaezelandiae", is a jack in the family Carangidae found around Australia and New Zealand at depths of up to 500 m. Its length is up to 50 cm.

The yellowtail horse mackerel is very similar to the greenback horse mackerel but has 68 to 73 lateral line scutes, compared with 76 to 82 for the greenback horse mackerel.

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