genus Seriola


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Noun1.genus Seriola - a genus of Carangidaegenus Seriola - a genus of Carangidae    
Seriola
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
amberfish, amberjack - any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
Seriola dorsalis, yellowtail - game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata, rudderfish - fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
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A tale of three tails: cryptic speciation in a globally distributed marine fish of the Genus Seriola. Copeia, 103: 357-368.
Mixed parasitism induced experimentally in yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis reared in RAS: intensity and spatial distribution on the skin and gills
All of these jacks are of the genus Seriola, which are the more shallow-bodied than other jacks such as jack crevalles or pompano.
OFFSHORE JACKS TO COUNT ON: Florida's Seriola Jacks: Almaco Jack, Banded Rudderfish, Greater Amberjack, and Lesser Amberjack

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