Indian Mackerel

Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker 1851)

Rastrelliger brachysoma (Indian Mackerel) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family mackerels. Individuals are known to live for 4 years and can grow to 34.5 cm.

EOL has data for 21 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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20 cm
fork length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001658
- Definition: length of a fish from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays
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34.5 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Ceram Sea
- URI: http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=4351
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habitat
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
- Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- Comment: Example: "oak savanna", "pre-cordilleran steppe"
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000569
- Definition: A habitat that is in or on a sea or ocean containing high concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (typically >35 grams dissolved salts per litre).
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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estuarine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000020
- Definition: Expressions of the estuarine biome occur at wide lower courses of a rivers where they flow into a sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt.
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Brunei
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/1820814
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker 1851) (Indian mackerel)
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Rastrelliger brachysoma (Bleeker 1851) (Indian mackerel)
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Unknown
total life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001661
- Definition: The full period of time from birth to death of an organism.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT
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4 years
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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5 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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28.063 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Indian mackerel. View this species on GBIF