FISHERY BULLETIN: VOL. 73, NO. 3 

 Table 7.-Total number of gill rakers on the first arch in species of Sardini. 



Species 



Cybiosarda elegans 



Orcynopsis unicolor: 

 E. Mediterranean 

 Cent. Mediterranean 

 (Postel 1956a, Tunisia) 

 Atlantic 



Total 



Sarda australis 



Sarda chiliensis: 

 NE Pacific 

 (Kuo 1970) 

 SE Pacific 

 (Kuo 1970) 



Total 



Sarda orientalis 

 Indian Ocean 

 NW Pacific 

 Cent. Pacific 

 E Pacific 



Total 



Sarda sarda: 

 North America 

 South America 

 NE Atlantic 



Mediterranean-Black Sea 

 (Demir 1964, Turkey) 

 Gulf of Guinea-S. Africa 



Total 



Gymnosarda unicolor: 

 Indian Ocean 

 W Pacific 



Total 

 Allothunnus fallai 



8 



9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 



N 



3 12 4 1 



1 8 18 8 1 



1—13 1 



(2 51 96 34 6) 



1 4 1 



1 1 10 25 10 1 



3 10 



3 9 12 10 



(1 28 226 229 25 



3 4 9 10 



(6 41 44 1) 



6 13 21 20 



1) 



20 



48 

 18 



69 



9 



11 



4 



_17 



41 



55 

 14 

 11 

 32 



(1,000) 

 28 



(72-73-74-75-76-80) 



8 

 21 



29 



6 



13.2 



36 15.0 



6 14.5 



(189) (15.0) 



6 15.0 



14.9 

 20.1 



25.2 



6 40 



1) (510) (24.5) 



3 29 25.2 



(92) (24.4) 



25.2 



11.2 

 10.0 

 10.0 

 11.3 



11.0 



17.6 

 18.7 

 19.8 

 20.9 

 (20.3) 

 20.9 



140 19.3 



12.7 

 12.6 



12.6 



75.0 



Figure 30.-Left premaxillae of six species of Sardini, external view. a. Cybiosarda elegans, New South Wales, 355 mm FL. b. 

 Orcyrwpsis unicolor, Tunisia, 645 mm FL. c. Sarda australis. New South Wales, 407 mm FL. d. Sarda sarda, Tunisia, 504 mm FL. e. 

 Gymnmarda unicolor, Truk Islands, 696 mm FL. f . Allothunnus fallai, California, 680 mm FL. 



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