On the species composition of fish of the genus Seriola (Carangidae) in the northwestern part of the sea of Japan

The study of fish of the genus Seriola collected in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan and kept in different museums of Vladivostok demonstrated that all of them belong to the same species-S. quinqueradiata Temminck et Schlegel, 1845. The characters and description of the studied fish with the indication of sites of their finding are provided. On the basis of processing published data and our own materials, it is shown that, in the northwestern part of the Sea of Japan, S. quinqueradiata is the most common and most distributed to the north. Two other species known in this region, S. lalandi Valienciennes, 1833 and S. dumerili (Risso, 1810) are more rare and until now not known to the north of Peter the Great Bay. Characters important for identification and an identification key are provided. © 2008 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.