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SpeciesPerciformesScombridae
Fish

🐟Indian mackerel

Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816)

グルクマ（虞留久満、英: Indian mackerel、学名: Rastrelliger kanagurta ）は、サバ目・サバ科に属する魚の一種。インド太平洋の熱帯域に広く分布する海水魚で、食用に漁獲される。和名は沖縄方言に由来するが、沖縄県では「グルクマー」と語尾を伸ばして発音・表記される。

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.86 kg
Body length
0.25 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
4 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian mackerel

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.86 kgaverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0.86 kgFishBasev25.04
Body length
0.25 mrecord 0.36 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.42 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
4 yearsmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.29
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.29 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Indian mackerel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyScombridae
  5. ›genusRastrelliger
  6. ›speciesRastrelliger kanagurta
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. tribeScombrini
  4. genusRastrelliger
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. tribeScombrini
  11. genusRastrelliger
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In other languages
Rastrelliger kanagurta (es), Rastrelliger kanagurta (fr), グルクマ (ja), ปลาทูโม่ง (th), 羽鳃鲐 (zh), 줄무늬고등어 (ko) … and 15 more languages
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