COLLETTE and RUSSO: SPANISH MACKERELS 



GCRL Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and 



Museum, Ocean Springs, Miss. 



LACM Los Angeles County Museum of 



Natural History, Los Angeles 



MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, 



Harvard 



MNHN Museum National d'Histoire Natu- 



relle, Paris 



MPIP Museu de Pesca do Instituto de Pes- 



ca, Santos 



MSUF Museo de La Specola, Universita di 



Firenze, Florence 



MZUSP Museu de Zoologia da Universidade 



de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 



NHMV Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna 



NMC National Museum of Natural Sci- 



ences, Ottawa 



QM Queensland Museum, Brisbane 



RMNH Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke His- 



toric, Leiden 



ROM Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 



RUSI J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyolo- 



gy, Rhodes University, Grahams- 

 town, South Africa 



SAM South African Museum, Capetown 



SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 



La Jolla, Calif. 



TABL Miami Laboratory (formerly Tropi- 



cal Atlantic Biological Laborato- 

 ry), NMFS, Miami, Fla. [Most 

 specimens now at UF] 



UDONECI Universidad de Oriente, Nueva Es- 

 parta, Centro de Investigaciones, 

 Venezuela 



UF Florida State Museum, University 



of Florida, Gainesville 



UMMZ University of Michigan Museum of 



Zoology, Ann Arbor 



USNM United States National Museum, 



Washington, D.C. 



WAM Western Australia Museum, Perth 



ZMA Zoological Museum, Amsterdam 



ZMH Zoologisches Institut und Zoolog- 



isches Museum, Hamburg 



ZMK Zoological Museum, Copenhagen 



ZSI Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta 



Acanthocybium solandri. — Total 47 (536-1,500 



mm FL). 



meas.: 26 (536-1,500): W Atlantic (8); St. He- 

 lena (1); S. Africa (3); Indian Ocean (4); 

 Caroline Is. (6); Tuamotu Is. (1); E Pa- 

 cific (3). 



heads: 8 (202-380): Bahama Is. (1); St. Helena 



(2); Australia (1); Marshall Is. (1); E 



Pacific (2). 

 counts: 36. 

 diss.: 11 (943-1,420): W Atlantic (7); Indian O. 



(3); Revillagigedos (1). 



Grammatorcynus bilineatus. — Total 52 (23.5-575 



mm FL). 



meas.: 34 (226-575): Red Sea (13, *Thynnus 

 bilineatus); Indian Ocean ? (1); Anda- 

 man Sea (3); Celebes (1); New Guinea 

 (3); Australia (8); Philippine Is. (5, 

 *Nesogrammus piersoni); Solomon Is. 

 (1); Caroline Is. (3); Marshall Is. (8); 

 Fiji (2). 



counts: 44. 



diss.: 10 (382-453): Indian Ocean ? (1); Timor 

 Sea (2); Bismarck Arch. (1); Marshall Is. 

 (2); Queensland, Australia (4). 



Grammatorcynus bicarinatus. — Total 9 (306-825 



mm FL). 



meas.: 9 (306-825): Western Australia (5); 



Queensland (4). 

 counts: 9. 

 diss.: 2 (521 and 563): Queensland. 



KEY TO GRAMMATORCYNUS, 



ACANTHOCYBIUM, AND 



SCOMBEROMORUS 



la. Two lateral lines, the lower joining the 

 upper behind the pectoral fin base and 

 at the caudal fin base; interpelvic pro- 

 cess single; teeth in jaws slender, coni- 

 cal, not compressed; vertebrae 31 .... 

 Grammatorcynus 2 



lb. One lateral line; interpelvic process 

 double; teeth in jaws strong, com- 

 pressed, almost triangular or knife- 

 like; vertebrae 39-64 3 



2a. Gill rakers 14-15; small eye, 3-4% FL; 

 frequently with small dark spots on 



lower sides of body 



G. bicarinatus (Quoy and Gaimard) 



2b. Gill rakers 19-24; large eye, 7-9% FL; 

 seldom with dark spots on sides of 

 body G. bilineatus (Riippell) 



3a. Snout as long as rest of head; no gill 

 rakers; 23-27 spines in first dorsal fin; 

 posterior end of maxilla concealed un- 



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