Summary ²

Trachurus lathami is a species of fish in the family Carangidae and the genus Trachurus, the jack mackerels. Common names include rough scad and horse mackerel in English, as well as chinchard frappeur (French), chicharro garretón (Spanish), jurel (in Argentina and Uruguay), and carapau, garaçuma, surel, and xixarro (in Brazil). It is native to parts of the western Atlantic Ocean, including seas off the eastern coasts of North and South America and the Gulf of Mexico.

Link to Access Genomic Data ³

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=179371&lvl=0

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1. (c) NOAANMFSMississippi Laboratory, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://d1iraxgbwuhpbw.cloudfront.net/images/species/trlat_u1.jpg
2. Adapted by matbio from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachurus_lathami
3. (c) matbio, all rights reserved

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