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Atule mate

Yellowtail Scad

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Yellowtail Scad, Finlet Scad; French Selar Queue Jaune

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Societies, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native - likely but no evidence; Marine, near-shore to 50m

KEY FEATURES: To 30cm, depth ~3 in SL. Additional eyelid has narrow vertical slit; black blotch on gill-cover. Blue-green above, silvery below; fins pale, 2nd Dorsal ±yellowish, and Tail greenish-yellow; in life 9-10 broad dark bars on body. Last ray of Dorsal and Anal finlet-like (partially separated) in larger fish. Shoulder girdle (under gill-cover) without papillae.

SIMILAR SPECIES: See Purse-eye Scad (Selar crumenophthalmus)

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Atule mate (Cuvier, 1833)
SYNONYMS: Alepes mate; Caranx mate [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; CARANGIDAE, Caranginae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Smith-Vaniz 1996, Carangidae. In M.M.Smith & Heemstra (eds) Smith's Sea Fishes.

References:
Special Reference: Smith-Vaniz 1996, Carangidae p.638-661. In: M.M.Smith & Heemstra (eds) Smith's Sea Fishes. Springer & Verlag, Berlin.

text p.128 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.157 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.246 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 37-05 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. p227 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM06a, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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