Bigscaled mackerel

The butterfly kingfish, bigscale mackerel, or butterfly mackerel, Gasterochisma melampus, the only species in the genus Gasterochisma, is found around the world in southern temperate waters, down to 200 m in open water.

The Bigscaled mackerel lives in the pelagic-oceanic, oceanodromous, marine, depth range 200 - m environment.

bigscaled mackerel, butterfly kingfish, thon papillon Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) - valid - pearl cichlid, pearl eartheater Geophagus surinamensis (Bloch, 1791) - valid - redstriped eartheater Gerres cinereus (Walbaum, 1792) - valid - mojarra blanca, mojarra More

Common names

atún chauchera in Spanish (español)
Big-scaled mackerel in English
Bigscale mackerel in English
bigscaled mackerel in English
butterfly kingfish in English
Butterfly mackerel in English
Butterfly tuna in English
Gasterochisma in Russian (русский язык)
Gasterochisma melampus in Catalan (Català)
Gastoro in Spanish (español)
Grootskub-makriel in Afrikaans
Großschuppenmakrele in German (Deutsch)
Mackerel in English
Perhostonnikala in Finnish (suomen kieli)
Pez chauchera in Spanish (español)
Scaled tunny in English
Scaly tuna in English
Serra-borboleta in Portuguese (Português)
Sommerfugletun in Danish (dansk)
thon papillon in French (français)
Urokomaguro in Japanese (日本語)
Vlindertonijn in Dutch (Nederlands)
腹翼鯖 in Mandarin Chinese
腹翼鲭 in Mandarin Chinese

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