Editing Cobia (section)

{{Short description|Species of ray-finned fish}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Redirect|Lemonfish|the New Zealand fish|Spotted estuary smooth-hound}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Rachycentron canadum Robertson.jpg
| image_caption = juvenile
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Collette, B.B. |author2=Curtis, M. |author3=Williams, J.T. |author4=Smith-Vaniz, W.F. |author5=Pina Amargos, F. |date=2015 |title=''Rachycentron canadum'' |volume=2015 |page=e.T190190A70036823 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190190A70036823.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Rachycentron
| species = canadum
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1766)
| synonyms = *''Gasterosteus canadus'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1766)</small> 
*''Elacate canada'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1766)</small>
*''Scomber niger'' <small>([[Marcus Elieser Bloch|Bloch]], 1793)</small> 
*A''polectus niger'' <small>(Bloch, 1793)</small> 
*''Elacate nigra'' <small>(Bloch, 1793)</small> 
*''Naucrates niger'' <small>(Bloch, 1793)</small> 
*''Centronotus gardenii'' <small>([[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacepède]], 1801)</small> 
*''Centronotus spinosus'' <small>([[Samuel L. Mitchill|Mitchill]], 1815)</small> 
*''Rachycentron typus'' <small>([[Johann Jakob Kaup|Kaup]], 1826)</small> 
*''Elacate motta'' <small>([[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1829)</small> 
*''Elacate bivittata'' <small>(Cuvier, 1832)</small> 
*''Elacate atlantica'' <small>(Cuvier, 1832)</small> 
*''Elacate malabarica'' <small>(Cuvier, 1832)</small> 
*''Elacate pondiceriana'' <small>(Cuvier, 1832)</small> 
*''Elacate nigerrima'' <small>([[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1839)</small> 
*''Meladerma nigerrima'' (Swainson, 1839) 
*''Elacate falcipinnis'' <small>([[Philip Henry Gosse|Gosse]], 1851)</small> 
*''Thynnus canadensis'' <small>([[Laurens Theodorus Gronovius|Gronow]], 1854)</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Rachycentron|canadum|month=August|year=2019}}</ref>
}}

The '''cobia''' ('''''Rachycentron canadum''''') ({{IPAc-en|'|k|oʊ|b|i|ə}}, {{Respell|KOH|bee|ə}}) is a species of [[Marine fish|marine]] [[Carangiformes|carangiform]] [[ray-finned fish]], the only extant representative of the genus ''[[Rachycentron]]'' and the family [[Rachycentridae]]. Its other common names include '''black kingfish''', '''black salmon''', '''ling''', '''lemonfish''', '''crabeater''', '''prodigal son''', '''codfish''', and '''black bonito'''.