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FIGURE 17.— Overlapping distributions of Scomberesocidae in the Western Hemisphere. Lines sloping downward to the right refer to 

 Cololabis saira in the North Pacific and near New Guinea, and to Scomberesox ssp. in the South Pacific and extreme northwestern 

 Atlantic; lines sloping downward to the left refer to Elassichthys adocetus. 



species being taken in the wide oceanic mouth of 

 Smyth Channel some 400 mi farther south. 



Our findings on the distribution of S. s. scom- 

 broides westward across the South Pacific differ 

 little from that shown by Parin (1968a). 



The northern subspecies, S. s, saurus, occurs 

 widely in the North Atlantic Ocean, north of about 

 30' N, but rather sparsely in the central area, 

 where it is very largely replaced by Nanichthys 

 (Figures 12, 14, 16). It ranges along North 



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America from Florida (rarely) to Newfoundland, 

 and well into the Gulf of St, Lawrence ( Vladykov 

 and McAllister 1961) and to Iceland (Saemunds- 

 son 1949). The species occurs uncommonly along 

 the eastern shores of the United States south of 

 New Jersey. It occurs at the oceanic islands of the 

 eastern North Atlantic, throughout the Mediter- 

 ranean, Aegean, and Adriatic Seas, the British 

 Isles, and along Norway to near Nordkapp. It has 

 been reported from the Barents Sea, and from the 



