Selar (fish)

Selar is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae which includes the scads, jacks, pompanos, trevallies and horse mackerels.^[2] The generic name, Selar, is the local name for the oxeye scad in Jakarta.^[3]

Selar
Bigeye scad (S. crumenophthalmus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Carangoidei
Family:	Carangidae
Subfamily:	Caranginae
Genus:	Selar Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Caranx boops (Cuvier, 1833)[1]

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Selar boops (Cuvier, 1833)	Oxeye scad	Indo-Pacific.
	Selar crumenophthalmus (Bloch, 1793)	Bigeye scad	Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Rapa, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia. Eastern Pacific: Mexico to Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean to São Paulo, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde to southern Angola