compiled), fig. 283 (after Smitt). Cadenat 

 1937:482 (Senegal). Navarro 1943:131 (Arguin 

 Bank, Mauritania), pi. 19, fig. B (photograph). 

 Tortonese 1949:65 (permanent resident, 

 Mediterranean Sea). Tortonese and Trotti 

 1949:87 (Ligurian Sea). 



Types of Nominal Species-Scomber unicolor E. 

 Geoff roy St. Hilaire 1817: pi. 24, fig. 6. No type- 

 specimens, text published by Isidore Geoffroy St. 

 Hilaire in 1827 ". . . sont extraits des notes prises 

 en Egypte par mon pere. Je n'ai pu me procurer ni 

 cette espece, ni celle qui est figuree dans I'Atlas 

 sous le nom de Maquereau unicolore; . . . trouvee 

 dans le Mediterranee." 



Cyhium Bonapartii Verany 1847:493. The type 

 was examined in the Museo della R. Universita di 

 Genova by Collett (1879b) and the name placed in 

 the synonymy of 0. unicolor (along with Thynnus 

 peregrinus Collett). The present whereabouts of 

 the type, if extant, are unknown. It is not listed in 

 the type catalog of the Museo Civico di Storia Na- 

 turale di Genova (Tortonese 1963) which absorbed 

 the University collections. The original descrip- 

 tion was based on a specimen from the Genoa 

 market taken on 31 May 1847. It had eight dorsal 

 finlets, seven anal finlets, conical teeth, and lacked 

 spots on the body. 



Cyhium altipinne Guichenot in Dumeril 1858. 

 Apparently a nomen nudum as there is no 

 description and we cannot find a description by 

 either Guichenot or Dumeril elsewhere. Also con- 

 sidered a nomen nudum by Postel (1973). Previous 

 authors (Fraser-Brunner 1950; Bauchot and Blanc 

 1961) have considered C. altipinne to be a synonym 

 oi Scomberomorus tritor (Cuvier) but the specimen 

 labelled as type is clearly 0. unicolor as Collette 

 (1966) has shown. 



Thynnus peregrinus Collett 1879a:20-30, pi. 1. 

 Placed in the synonymy of Orcynopsis unicolor 

 later in the same year (Collett 1879b). Lectotype 

 (herein selected): ZMO J4632; 565 mm FL; Norway, 

 Christianiafjord (Oslo), Naesjifen; 26 Aug. 1876. 

 Prof. Esmark. Paralectotype: ZMO J4631; 570 mm; 

 same data as lectotype. The smaller syntype is 

 selected as lectotype because the dorsal spine 

 count of 13 matches the original description and 

 because the two patches of teeth on the tongue are 

 the usual size for 0. unicolor. The paralectotype 

 has two very small patches of tongue teeth. Counts 

 for the lectotype (paralectotype in parentheses): 

 dorsal fin rays XIII + 14 -f- VIII(XIV -i- 14 + VIII); 

 anal fin rays 15 + VII (15 + VII); pectoral fin rays 



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Geft-right) 23-21 (23-22); gill rakers 3+ 1 + 11 = 15 

 in both; upper jaw teeth (left-right) 23-25 (20-22); 

 lower jaw teeth 20-20 (16-17). 



Distribution. -Oc?/wopsis unicolor is an eastern 

 Atlantic endemic whose range is centered in the 

 Mediterranean Sea but extends south to Dakar, 

 Senegal and north to Oslo, Norway (Figure 69). It 

 was first described from Egypt by Geoffroy St. 

 Hilaire (1817) and most subsequent records have 

 come from the southern Mediterranean: Lebanon 

 (George et al. 1964; 12 USNM specimens), Israel 

 (Liebman 1934; Collette 1970; Ben-Tuvia 1971; 5 

 USNM specimens; SFRS 1686, 2009, BT-1767, 

 BT-1582, BT-1986), Egypt (Ehrenbaum 1924; 10 

 NHMV specimens), Tunisia (Postel 1956c; 7 USNM 

 specimens), Algeria (Guichenot 1850; Dieuzeide 

 1930; Dieuzeide et al. 1955), and Morocco (Lozano 

 1916). Records from the northern Mediterranean 

 are scarcer: Genoa, Italy (Verany 1847; MSNG 

 1987); Ligurian Sea (Tortonese and Trotti 1949); 

 Adriatic Sea (Ninni 1882; §oljan 1963; MSUF 

 495D); Elba (MSUF coll. 1172); Nice, France 

 (Moreau 1881; NHMV 1884.1.204). The Norwegian 

 record is based on the two types of Thynnus 

 peregrinus Collett, taken at Naes^n, Chris- 

 tianiafjord ( = Oslofjord) in August 1876. There 

 are several records for the Atlantic coast of North 

 Africa south to Dakar, Senegal: Rabat, Morocco 

 (Dollfus 1955); Spanish West Africa (Stassano 

 1890; Vinciguerra 1890; Gruval and Bouyat 1906); 

 Mauritania (Chabanaud and Monod 1927; Navarro 

 1943; de Groot and Nijssen 1971; USNM uncat.); 

 and Cape Verde and Dakar, Senegal (Dumeril 

 1858; Rochebrune 1882; Postel 1950; Frade and 

 Postel 1955; MNHN A.5797). There is one record 

 from further south, in the Gulf of Guinea. 

 Williams (1968:436) reported that a specimen was 

 taken off Ghana during the Guinean Trawling 

 Survey. The specimen was apparently not saved, 

 the identification was probably based on the first 

 draft of the illustrated key by Blache et al. (1970) 

 which has the figures of Scomberomorus tritor and 

 Orcyrwpsis unicolor transposed, and the record is 

 well out of the normal range of the species. 

 Therefore, the record must be considered highly 

 questionable unless confirmed by additional 

 specimens. 



Cyhiosarda Whitley 



Scomberomorus (Cybiosarda) Whitley 1935:236 J 

 (type-species S. (C.) elegans Whitley by mono- I 



typy). I 



