Scomberomorini is a tribe of ray-finned saltwater bony fishes that is commonly known as the Spanish mackerels or seerfishes. This tribe is a subset of the mackerel family (Scombridae) – a family that it shares with three sister tribes, the tunas, mackerels, and bonitos, and the butterfly kingfish. Scomberomorini comprises 21 species across three genera.
The following cladogram shows the most likely evolutionary relationships between the Spanish mackerels and the tunas, mackerels, bonitos, and the butterfly kingfish.
This tribe comprises 21 species in three genera:
Acanthocybium (Gill, 1862)A. solandri (Cuvier, 1832), wahooGrammatorcynus (Gill, 1862)G. bicarinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825), shark mackerelG. bilineatus (Rüppell, 1836), double-lined mackerelScomberomorus (Lacepède, 1801)S. brasiliensis Collette, Russo & Zavala-Camin, 1978, Serra Spanish mackerelS. cavalla (Cuvier, 1829), king mackerelS. commerson (Lacépède, 1800), narrow-barred Spanish mackerelS. concolor (Lockington, 1879), Monterrey Spanish mackerelS. guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Indo-Pacific king mackerelS. koreanus (Kishinouye, 1915), Korean seerfishS. lineolatus (Cuvier, 1829), streaked seerfishS. maculatus (Couch, 1832), Atlantic Spanish mackerelS. multiradiatus Munro, 1964, Papuan seerfishS. munroi Collette & Russo, 1980, Australian spotted mackerelS. niphonius (Cuvier, 1832), Japanese Spanish mackerelS. plurilineatus Fourmanoir, 1966, Kanadi kingfishS. queenslandicus Munro, 1943, Queensland school mackerelS. regalis (Bloch, 1793), Cero mackerelS. semifasciatus (Macleay, 1883), broadbarred king mackerelS. sierra Jordan & Starks, 1895, Pacific sierraS. sinensis (Lacépède, 1800), Chinese seerfishS. tritor (Cuvier, 1832), West African Spanish mackerel
