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Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and South Africa to Southeast Asia, north to China and Japan and south to southeast Australia, and to Fiji. Immigrant to the eastern Mediterranean Sea by way of the Suez Canal. Southeast Atlantic: St. Helena.
Feed primarily on small fishes like anchovies, clupeids, carangids, also squids and penaeoid shrimps.
Max length : 240 cm FL male/unsexed;
common length : 120 cm TL male/unsexed;
max. published weight: 70.0 kg
Synonyms:
Cibium commersonii (Lacepède, 1800)
Cybium commersoni (Lacepède, 1800)
Cybium commersonii (Lacepède, 1800)
Cybium konam Bleeker, 1851
Cybium multifasciatum Kishinouye, 1915
Scomber commerson Lacepède, 1800
Scomber commersonii Lacepède, 1800
Scomber maculosus Shaw, 1803
Scomberomorous commerson (Lacepède, 1800)
Scomberomorus commercon (Lacepède, 1800)
Scomberomorus commersoni (Lacepède, 1800)
Scomberomorus commersonii (Lacepède, 1800)
Scomerommorus commerson (Lacepède, 1800)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scombroidei (Suborder) > Scombridae (Family) > Scombrinae (Subfamily) > Scomberomorus (Genus) > Scomberomorus commerson (Species)