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Macleay 1881:244 (description; Melbourne and 

 Sydney). Giinther 1889:34'^ (unable to separate 

 young of saurus and forsteri). Hutton 1872:53 

 (description; 12-in specimen; New Zealand); 

 1889:283 (New Zealand). Sherrin 1886:305 

 (New Zealand). Hutton 1904:50 (New Zealand). 

 Stead 1906:70 (Australia); 1908:39 (characters; 

 immense shoals of half-grown fish inside Port 

 Jackson Heads). Regan 1916:134 (northern New 

 Zealand and Three Kings Islands). Phillipps 

 1921:120 (food value; highly esteemed edible 

 fish at Bay of Islands; probably spawns in mid- 

 May). Waite 1921:64 (South Australia; often 

 netted with garfish); 1923:88, fig. 96 (length to 

 15 in; surface skipping and jumping). 

 Scomberesox forsteri. — Brevoort 1856:281 (New 

 Zealand; seems closest to S. saira). Jordan et al. 

 1930:197 (questioned synonymy with S. saurus: 

 New Zealand). Munro 1938:55, fig. 389 (diag- 

 nosis; habitat: New South Wales, Victoria, 

 Tasmania, South and West Australia). Berg 

 1939:207, and 1941 (reprint):654 (closely re- 

 peated species; New Zealand and southern Aus- 

 tralia). Whitley 1948:15 (off Albany and Perth, 

 Western Australia). Andriashev 1961:345, 

 348 — as "Scomberesox forsteri"; 397, 422, 424, 

 442— as "Scomberesox"; 421, 426, 442, 443, 

 445 — as "Scomberesox sp" (taken at "Ob" sta- 

 tions in southern Pacific Ocean); 1962:285 

 (north of 46"S in "Zone of Scomberesox"). Whit- 

 ley 1962:52, fig. (habits; characters: southeast 

 Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania to West 

 Australia, and elsewhere). Moreland 1963:18, 

 fig. (general remarks). Parin 1963:134, 139 (at- 

 tracted to light at night). Heath and Moreland 

 1967: 16, fig. 17 ("needlefish" and other vernacu- 

 lars; general remarks; New Zealand). Parin 

 1967a:58 (42 in translation) (doubtful status as 

 species). Berman and Ryzhenko 1968:10, 12, fig. 

 (young and adults off Chile and Perii; potential 

 fishery). Whitley 1968:35 (synonymy). Scott et 

 al. 1974:88 (descriptitm; distribution; West and 

 South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, 

 and Tasmania; uncommon off South Australia). 



'^Giinther referred the pelade fr>' and young sauries i"up to 

 Iva inche.s in length"!, taken in the Pacific Ocean, to S. fnrsten 

 while acltnowiedging that he could not di-stinguish them from .S 

 saurus. But he stated that these specimens were taljen m July 

 1875, during which month the ship was runnmgeast from Japan 

 near .35 N, thence due south to Hawaii (Mosely 1879:495 and 

 track chart; also p. 750 and Sheet 36 of Part' 1 of Vol. 1 ol 

 Challenger Report I. Although the specimens are apparently no! 

 extant in the British Museum (see footnote 5). it seems safe to 

 conclude that the record was based on Colnlabis .■iairii- 



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Scomberesox sourus forsterii. — Chirichigno F. 

 1969:40, fig, 85 (vernaculars; Peru, Chile, Islas 

 de Juan Fernandez; detailed description). 



Scomberesox stolatus. — de Buen 1959:262-264 

 (original description; synonymic references to 

 Scomberesox and Scomberesox equirostrum and 

 aequirostrum; types from 35°20' S, 75°23' W; 

 vernaculars). Chirichigno F. 1962:2, 8-9, fig. 6 

 (Callao and Isla Chincha, Perii; from Arica to 

 central zone of Chile; Islas de Juan Fernandez, 

 and I in error] Isla de Pascua; not previously 

 known from Peru). Koepcke 1962:196-197 (ref- 

 erences; high seas; west coast of South America 

 from central Chile to Callao, Peru; Islas de Juan 

 Fernandez, and (in errorl Isla de Pascua [sec 

 footnote 111). De Buen 1963b:81, 83, 85 (key; 

 brief description; Antofagasta). Medina 

 1965:260-261 (habitat; central Chile from Cal- 

 lao, Perii, and Juan Fernandez Islands, and |in 

 error] Isla de Pascua). 



Cololabis saira (misidentification). — Chirichigno 

 F. 1962:9, fig. 7 (description of young; Paita, 

 Peru). Koepcke 1962:197 (in part; reference to 

 Chirichigno's Paita record only). Fourmanoir 

 1971:492 (87 specimens, 8-30 mm, from 180 mi 

 west of Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Aus- 

 tralia). 



Scomberesocidae. — Lcinnberg 1907:15 (Straits of 

 Magellan, "Smyth Channel, Eden Harbour"). 

 Fowler 1942b:384 (Brazil, Patagonia, West Af- 

 rica). 



Scombere.wx. — Bbhlke 1951:85-86 (Chile; Col- 

 olabis adocetus compared). 



Needlefish.— McKenzie 1964:14, 1 fig. (in part; 

 vernaculars; color; size; habits; New Zealand). 



Discussion of Synonymy. — The synonymy of 

 Scomberesox has some complications but in gen- 

 eral is relatively clear taxonomically and nomen- 

 claturally. The name was spelled as Scomberesox 

 twice by Lacepede (1803), hence can hardly be 

 treated as a misprint, though in naming the 

 species Scomberesox Camperii he gave the French 

 vernacular as Scombresoce camperien. Many au- 

 thors, beginning apparently with Rafinesque 

 ( 1810), adopted the classically more correct but un- 

 acceptable (unauthorized) emended spelling 

 Scombresox for the genus, and this spelling is still 

 occasionally followed in Europe (viz. Zoological 

 Record (Pisces), 1956-59). The type-species of 

 Scomberesox, by monotypy, is S. camperii 

 Lacepede, a synonym of S. saurus saurus (Wal- 

 baum). 



