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Decapterus

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Noun1.Decapterus - scads especially mackerel scadDecapterus - scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution
genus Decapterus
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
Carangidae, family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad - small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
cigarfish, Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad - small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
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