Smallmouth Scad, Alepes apercna Grant 1987
Other Names: Banded Scad, Roundfin Trevally, Small-mouthed Scad
A Smallmouth Scad, Alepes apercna, in the Gold Coast Seaway, southern Queensland, September 2013. Source: Ian Banks / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A green to bluish-green scad becoming silvery to white below, with a diffuse dusky blotch not bordered above by a white spot on the margin of the gill cover, dorsal, anal, and caudal fins dusky yellow, often with white tips on the anterior rays of second dorsal and anal fins, dark tips often on the lobes of the caudal fin, and white pelvic fins. Juveniles have seven dark bands along the body.
The supramaxilla is relatively small and lacks an anterior spine-like extension.
The supramaxilla is relatively small and lacks an anterior spine-like extension.
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Alepes apercna in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3712
Smallmouth Scad, Alepes apercna Grant 1987
More Info
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Distribution |
Endemic to northern Australia, from Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, to Southport, southern Queensland. Elsewhere the species reportedly occurs in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia. The species is pelagic in inshore waters. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin VII + I,24-26; Anal fin II + I,20-222; Scutes 9-13; Gill rakers (incl rudiments) 7-11 + 21-26; Vertebrae 24. Snout bluntly rounded. adipose eyelid well developed on posterior half of the eye only; upper jaw narrowly rounded posteriorly with a single row of teeth; supramaxilla relatively small without an anterior spine-like extension. Straight part of lateral line completely covered by scutes. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on small invertebrates, including microscopic crustaceans and molluscs |
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Fisheries |
Mostly taken on hook and line. |
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Species Citation |
Alepes apercna Grant 1987, Fishes of Australia: 173, fig. 400 (ex Smith-Vaniz manuscript). Type locality: Australia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Resources |
Smallmouth Scad, Alepes apercna Grant 1987
References
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Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)
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Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1999. Family Carangidae. pp. 2659-2756 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790.
Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Williams, I. 2016. Alepes apercna (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T20255775A115370602. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T20255775A67871495.en. Downloaded on 17 April 2019.
Springer, V.G. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 2008. Supraneural and pterygiophore insertion patterns in carangid fishes, with description of a new Eocene carangid tribe, +Paratrachinotini, and a survey of anterior anal-fin pterygiophore insertion patterns in Acanthomorpha. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 16: i + 1-73.
