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Scombridae

Family of fishes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Scombridae is a family of marine ray-finned fish that consists of 51 extant species in 15 genera and two subfamilies, many of which are the most important and familiar commercial food fishes. All but one species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, which include mackerel, tuna and bonito; while the only exception is the butterfly kingfish, which is the sole member of subfamily Gasterochismatinae.

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“Scombridae” enters the record as family of fishes. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scombridae, Family and fishes can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scombridae, Family and fishes.
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“Scombridae” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scombridae, Family and fishes provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scombridae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.