Horse Mackerel

Horse Mackerel, a book-name for fishes of the Acanthopterygian family Carangidce, from tropical and temperate regions. The type-genus Caranx, with about 90 species, has the body more or less compressed, and the lateral line entirely or partially covered with plate-like scales. C. trachurus, the Common Horse Mackerel, about a foot long, is common round the English coasts, and is sometimes eaten, but its flavour is far inferior to that of the mackerel (q.v.).