FISHERY BULLETIN: VUL. 73, NO. 3 



M. Boeseman (RMNH); James E. Bohlke (ANSP); 

 J. Cadenat (formerly at Institut frangais 

 d'Afrique Noir, Dakar, Senegal); Joseph F. Copp 

 (SIO); Myvanwy Dick (MCZ); William N. Esch- 

 meyer (CAS); Thomas H. Eraser (formerly at 

 RUSI); Carl George (formerly at American 

 University of Beirut); Charles Gruchy (NMC); 

 Robert K. Johnson (FMNH); Paul Kahsbauer 

 (NHMV); W. Klausewitz (SMF); Robert J. Laven- 

 berg (LACM); Rogelio B. Lopez (MACN); John M. 

 Mason, Jr. (WHOI); Frank J. Mather III (WHOI); 

 R. J. McKay (formerly at WAM); J. Moreland 

 (DM); Ian S. R. Munro (CSIRO); Eugene L. 

 Nakamura (Gulf Coastal Fisheries Center 

 Panama City Laboratory, NMFS); Th. Monod 

 (formerly at Institut fran^ais d'Afrique Noir, 

 Dakar, Senegal); J0rgen G. Nielsen (ZMK); G. 

 Palmer (BMNH); John R. Paxton (AMS); Per 

 Pethon (ZMO); Thomas Potthoff (TABL); Jay 

 Quast (AB); Helen Randall (BPBM); William J. 

 Richards (TABL); C. Richard Robins (UMML); 

 Richard Rosenblatt (SIO); Pearl Sonoda (CAS); the 

 late H. Steinitz (HUJ); Frank H. Talbot (AMS and, 

 previously, SAM); Enrico Tortonese (MSNG); 

 Boyd Walker (UCLA); Martin Wiley (CBL); and 

 Norman J. Wilimovsky (UBC). 



Frozen material, vital to this project, was ob- 

 tained through the much appreciated efforts of: 

 Tokiharu Abe (University of Tokyo); Adam Ben- 

 Tuvia (SFRS); R. Budd (Sydney Fish Market); 

 Norma Chirichigno (Instituto del Mar del Peru, 

 Callao); William P. Davis (formerly at Medi- 

 terranean Marine Sorting Center, Khereddine, 

 Tunisia); C. E. Dawson (Gulf Coast Research 

 Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Miss.); John E. Fitch 

 (California Department of Fish and Game); 

 Jeffrey B. Graham (Smithsonian Tropical 

 Research Institute, Balboa, Panama); Frank J. 

 Hester (formerly at Southwest Fisheries Center 

 Honolulu Laboratory, NMFS); Meredith Jones 



(USNM); G. L. Kesteven (CSIRO); W. L. Klawe 

 (Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La 

 JoUa, Calif.); Leslie W. Knapp (Smithsonian 

 Oceanographic Sorting Center); A. M. Olsen 

 (CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania); the late Al Pflueger 

 (Miami); Robert V. Miller (NMFS, Washington, 

 D.C.); Ira and Roberta Rubinoff (Smithsonian 

 Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama); 

 Paul J. Struhsaker (Southwest Fisheries Center 

 Honolulu Laboratory, NMFS); and Charles 

 Wenner (Virginia Institute of Marine Science). 



Work at the Australian Museum was made pos- 

 sible through the National Marine Fisheries Ser- 

 vice and the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 its Director, Frank H. Talbot, its Curator of 

 Fishes, John R. Paxton, the Director of New South 

 Wales State Fisheries, Donald D. Francois, and 

 the chief Market Inspector, R. Budd. A trip to 

 Tunisia to study Orcynopsis was arranged by 

 William P. Davis, former Director of the Medi- 

 terranean Marine Sorting Center, Khereddine, 

 Tunisia. Jack Marquardt and his staff at the 

 Smithsonian library were most helpful in finding 

 and obtaining early or obscure references to boni- 

 tos. 



The figures, which are an integral part of this 

 paper, were drawn by Keiko Hiratsuka Moore. 

 Radiographs were taken by George Clipper. Typ- 

 ing, retyping, proofreading, xeroxing, and all the 

 other necessary clerical work was done by Arleen 

 McClain, Partheina Mackabee, Sara E. Collette, 

 and Joseph Russo. Robert H. Gibbs, Jr., Steven 

 Gray, Linda Pushee Mercer, and Joseph Russo as- 

 sisted with some dissections. E. H. Ahlstrom and 

 Thomas Potthoff provided valuable comments on 

 the caudal complex section as did John E. Fitch on 

 the otolith section. Drafts of the entire manuscript 

 were reviewed by Daniel M. Cohen, W. L. Klawe, 

 Izumi Nakamura, Thomas Potthoff, and Stanley 

 H. Weitzman. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF SARDINI 



la. Jaw teeth tiny, 40-55 on each side of upper and lower jaws; gill rakers fine and numerous, 

 total of 70-80 on first arch; body elongate, snout to second dorsal 610-654 thousandths of 

 fork length; maxilla short, 354-379 thousandths of head length Allothunnus fallai Serventy 



lb. Jaw teeth larger and more prominent, 10-30 on each side of upper and lower jaws; total gill 

 rakers on first arch 8-27; body less elongate, snout to second dorsal 481-610 thousandths 

 of fork length; maxilla longer, 431-557 thousandths of head length 2 



520 



