Kintaka - Kintaka

Japanese: キンタカ - きんたか
Kintaka - Kintaka

…Their morphologies are very similar, but the scales on the top of the head of the former are seen up to the upper front end of the eye, whereas in the latter they end at the center or near the upper rear end of the eye. The red-headed horse mackerel is also known as akaze, and is also called kintaka or kinmuro (Wakayama). It is more cylindrical than the Japanese horse mackerel, with a yellow-green back, silvery white abdomen, and a dark yellow vertical stripe on one side of the body. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kintaka" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…形態はよく似ているが,前者は頭頂のうろこが眼の前端部の上部まで見られるが,後者では眼の中央部あるいは後端の上部付近で終わっている。ムロアジは別名アカゼと呼ばれ,キンタカ,キンムロ(和歌山)の名もある。マアジより筒型で,背は黄緑色,腹部銀白色,体側に濃い黄色の1縦帯がある。…

※「キンタカ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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