February 1938. We have not examined any of 

 these and report the counts of the holotype from 

 Serventy's original description: dorsal fin rays 

 XVII + 12 + VII; anal fin rays 14 + VII; pectoral fin 

 rays 25; gill rakers (left-right) 25 + 48 = 73, 

 24 + 51 = 75. 



Distribution. -yl//o^/iwwwws fallai is found 

 around the world in the Southern Ocean (Figure 

 69). It was originally described from the South 

 Island of New Zealand in 1948, then reported from 

 Cape Peninsula, South Africa, by Talbot (1960), 

 South-West Africa by Smith (1965), and from 

 Tasmania by Olsen (1962). Fitch and Craig (1964) 

 reported the most unusual record, a 680-mm FL 

 specimen from the Los Angeles-Long Beach har- 

 bor complex, the only adult specimen that had 

 been taken north of lat. 35°S. Subsequent to this, 

 Nakamura and Mori (1966) studied several 

 specimens from the Tasman Sea and a series of 

 Japanese authors (Watanabe et al. 1966; Mori 

 1967a, b; Ueyanagi 1969; Mori 1972) reported 

 juveniles from the southern parts of the Atlantic, 

 Indian, and Pacific oceans to complete our present 

 knowledge of the range of the species. Another 

 scombrid, Gasterochisma melampus, and probably 

 also Thunnus maccoyii, has a similar distribution 

 in the northern part of the South Ocean around the 

 world. 



Food. -One of the Tasmanian specimens 

 reported on by Webb and Wolfe (1974) had its 

 stomach filled with euphausiids. Edward Brinton 

 (SIO) has kindly identified these as Nyctiphanes 

 austi'alis, a species endemic to eastern Australian 

 and New Zealand neritic and slope waters. 



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