Selar (fish)

Selar is a genus of ray-finned fishes from the family Carangidae which includes the scads, jacks, pompanos, trevallies and horse mackerels. The generic name, Selar, is the local name for the oxeye scad in Jakarta.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Selar boops	Oxeye scad	Indo-Pacific.
	Selar crumenophthalmus	Bigeye scad	Indo-Pacific: East Africa to Rapa, north to southern Japan and the Hawaiian Islands, south to New Caledonia. Eastern Pacific: Mexico to Peru, including the Galapagos Islands. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and Bermuda through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean to São Paulo, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde to southern Angola