Selar Bleeker, 1851
Dorsal accessory lateral line terminating in front of spinous dorsal fin. Teeth small and recurved, those of upper jaw in a narrow band, tapering posteriorly; lower jaw with an irregular single row of teeth. Shoulder girdle (cleithrum) margin with two papillae: a relatively large papilla ventrally and a smaller papilla near upper edge. Terminal ray of dorsal and anal fins closely positioned to adjacent ray and completely attached by inter-radial membrane; spinous dorsal fin relatively high, longest spine about equal to length of soft dorsal fin lobe. No enlarged scutelike scales anteriorly in curved lateral line; scutes present in straight lateral line.
Habitat: a schooling species taken in 366-458 m off Portugal but known to occur as shallow as 35 m elsewhere. Food: planktonic and benthic invertebrates. Reproduction: see family.
Distribution: one confirmed eastern Atlantic record from Sezimbra Bay (Portugal), where previously known to local fishermen. (This record based on Palmer (1976), who misidentified the species as Selar crumenophthalmus) Elsewhere, known only from the Bay of Bengal to the central Pacific Ocean.
Species 2; in Clofnam area 1.
Recent revision: Smith-Vaniz and Berry (1981—on a regional basis only).
Species of this genus in the program:
Selar boops