Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 212

Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 .

Chub Mackerel, Pacific Chub Mackerel, or Pacific Mackerel. To nearly 63.5 cm (25 in) TL ( Fitch 1956). Western Pacific Ocean north to Japan ( Collette and Nauen 1983), southern Kuril Islands ( Savinykh 1998), and south-eastern Kamchatka ( Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Gulf of California ( Castro Hernández and Santana Ortega 2000) to Chile ( Robertson and Allen 2015), including Islas Galápagos ( Collette and Nauen 1983). Coastal pelagic to epipelagic or mesopelagic over continental slope; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to about 300 m (984 ft) ( Collette and Nauen 1983); sometimes near shore in surf ( Love et al. 2005). Previously treated as conspecific with Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 , of the Atlantic ( Collette 1999, 2003).