Notes on eggs, larvae and juveniles of fishes from Indian waters. VIII. Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch and Schneider), IX. Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepede) and X. Scomberomorus lineolatus (Cuvier)

Abstract

Scomberomorus guttatus (Bloch and Schneider)This is the commonest seerfish in Indian waters and is fairly widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from the Persian Gulf in the east to the Western Pacific from Taiwan to Indonesia. It attains a length of about | of a metre. According to Munro (1943) S. guttatus does not occur in Australian waters and the specimens formerly identified as S. guttatus were most likely either S. queens- landicus or S. semifasciatus. Some may even refer to S. niphonius.