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Butterfly kingfish

Butterfly kingfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Scombridae
Subfamily: Gasterochismatinae
Lahille, 1903
Genus: Gasterochisma
Richardson, 1845
Species:
G. melampus
Binomial name
Gasterochisma melampus
Synonyms
  • Chenogaster holmbergi
    (Lahille, 1903)
  • Lepidothynnus huttoni
    (Günther, 1889)

The butterfly kingfish (Gasterochisma melampus) is an ocean-dwelling ray-finned bony fish in the mackerel family, Scombridae – a family which it shares with the tunas, mackerels, Spanish mackerels, and bonitos. Unlike the 50 species from those four tribes, however, this species is unique in that it is the only scombrid to be classified apart from the rest, into the subfamily Gasterochismatinae and genus Gasterochisma.[2][3][4]

Although taxonomists and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have accepted the name "butterfly kingfish", this fish has had many common names, including big-scaled mackerel, bigscale mackerel, butterfly mackerel, butterfly tuna, scaled tunny, scaly tuna, and others. In 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave approval for this fish to be marketed simply as "mackerel".[5]

  1. ^ Collette, B.; Boustany, A.; Carpenter, K.E.; Di Natale, A.; Fox, W.; Graves, J.; Juan Jorda, M.; Miyabe, N.; Nelson, R.; Oxenford, H.; Uozumi, Y. (2011). "Gasterochisma melampus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T170340A6756181. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T170340A6756181.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Graham2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Gasterochisma melampus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Orrell2006 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Randolph, S.; Snyder, M. The seafood list: FDA's guide to acceptable market names for seafood sold in interstate commerce. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

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