HUBBS and WISNER REVISION OF THE SAURIES 



Figure 16. — Overlapping distributions of Scomberesocidae in the Eastern Hetnisphere. Lines sloping downward to the left refer to 

 Nanichthys simulans; lines sloping downward to the right refer to Scomberesox saurus in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. 



"young" specimens could have been confused. 

 Mann ( 1954b, 1960) listed no scomberesocids or 

 beloniforms from the Patagonian area. Also, there 

 appears to be confusion as to the locality of the 

 capture stated by Lonnberg: Smyth Channel and 

 Eden Harbor appear to be about 240 mi apart. 

 According to Defense Mapping Agency Chart 

 22ACO 22390, Eden Harbor mow Puerto Eden) 

 lies on a narrow channel along the east side of Isla 

 Wellington, about 49'09' S, 74 24' W. This is far 

 inland from the open sea and is a seemingly im- 



probable place to find a synentognath fish. Smyth 

 Channel ( Defense Mapping Agency Chart 22XH A 

 22404) opens to the Pacific Ocean at about 52°50' 

 S, 73'50' W (about the center of its wide mouth) 

 and extends northerly to about 52 23' S, where it 

 merges with Mayne and Gray Channels. If scom- 

 beresocid fishes of any size occur in the area, the 

 mouth of Smyth Channel is a more probable place 

 than the inland Eden Harbor. The taking of seven 

 young of S. s. scomhroidet^ at 47 S, 81' W, cited 

 above, lends some credence to the possibility of the 



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