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FIGURE 14— Distribution of the northern and southern populations o{ Scomberesca saurus in the Eastern Hemisphere. Solid circles 

 represent material examined by us; small open circles, records published by Parin ( 1968a); large open circles represent other published 

 records (specimens not examined by us); solid triangles, records mapped by Ueyanagi et al. (1972); small open squares, localities 

 mapped by Dudnik ( 1975a), additional and closely spaced records by Dudnik off southwestern Africa are indicated by two open ellipses. 

 Letters L and M refer to records published by Lampe (1914) and Murray and Hjort (1912). 



The far-southern locality off Chile for S. s. 

 scombroides, at 47" S, 81" W (Figure 15), is based 

 on seven juveniles (56-67 mm SL) in the Hamburg 

 Museum (No. 10601) examined by us. This south- 

 ern occurrence is not readily explained. It lies well 

 within the portion of the West Wind Drift that 

 forms the northerly flowing Peru Current; per- 

 haps these specimens were waifs carried south 



into the edge of this current by the counterclock- 

 wise southeastern eddy of subtropical water that 

 extends to between about 20" to 40'-45 ' S and 

 120''-80° W. The southern localities listed by Parin 

 (1968a) to 48° S, about 110° W, are apparently 

 attributable to a similar extension of subtropical 

 water (Figure 15). 

 The questioned locality near the Straits of 



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