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Selar boops

Oxeye Scad

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Oxeye Scad, Yellowband Scad

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Andamans - Marquesas; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native - likely but no evidence; no evidence; Marine, pelagic, near-shore (autumn); in schools

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food

KEY FEATURES: To 30cm, depth ~3 in SL. Additional eyelid has a narrow slit; small dark spot on gill-cover edge. Metallic blue-green above, silvery-white below; ± a broad yellow stripe along upper-half. Straight Lateral Line about 2x arched section; scutes 43-46, start under ~1st ray of 2nd Dorsal. On lower margin within the gill opening a deep groove (with a large papilla above). D VII.

SIMILAR SPECIES: See Bigeye 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

Selar boops (Cuvier, 1833)
SYNONYMS: Caranx boops [O]

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: no specimen, claimed by Smith-Vaniz 1986 - see refs.

References:
Special Reference: Smith-Vaniz, W.F., 1986. Carangidae. p. 815-844. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. vol. 2.

text p.128 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate -129b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.165 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 39-07 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 370 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zB02, 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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