Scomberoides

Scomberoides is a genus of carangids, known as the queenfishes, native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. The species in this genus may be venomous with the venom found on the spines of the dorsal and anal fins.^[2]

Scomberoides
Double-spotted queenfish (S. lysan)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Carangoidei
Family:	Carangidae
Subfamily:	Scomberoidinae
Genus:	Scomberoides Lacépède, 1801
Type species
Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacepède, 1801[1]

Species

Currently, five species in this genus are recognized:^[3]

• Scomberoides commersonnianus Lacépède, 1801 (Talang queenfish)
• Scomberoides lysan (Forsskål, 1775) (doublespotted queenfish)
• Scomberoides pelagicus E.M. Abdussamad, Gopalakrishnan, K.G. Mini, S. Sukumaran, P.R. Divya, T.B. Retheesh, A.A. Muhammed, N.V. Dipti, A.R. Akhil, T. Thomas and K.D. Jacob, 2022^[4] (Deepbodied Queenfish)
• Scomberoides tala (Cuvier, 1832) (barred queenfish)
• Scomberoides tol (Cuvier, 1832) (needle-scaled queenfish)