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eu (well) and dora (hide) in reference to the wide or 

 well-developed corselet. Carl L. Hubbs suggested this 

 name in a memo dated 1 Feb 1951 to W.I. Follett, 

 concerning an edition of their California fish list, with 

 copies to Fitch and Roedel. 



Material examined 30 specimens ( 300-365 mm FL ) 

 from 17 collections. 



Holotype LACM 6712-1 (330 mm FL); CA, 23 Fathom 

 Bank; 13 Jan 1955; R.D. Collyer; field number SSY 1-2. 

 Pectoral fin 41.7 mm; anterior extent of dorsal scaleless 

 area extends 8.1 mm posterior to tip of pectoral fin; width 

 of corselet under second dorsal-fin origin 10.2 mm; 25 

 scales in corselet under second dorsal-fin origin; gill rak- 

 ers 11 + 36 = 47. See Fig. 13C. 



Paratypes from the eastern Pacific 29 specimens 

 (300-365 mm FL) from 17 collections. 



LACM 6711-5 (1, 350); CA, Balboa Pier; 17 Sep 1960; 

 J.P Reed. LACM 6711-6 (1, 312); CA, off Newport Beach; 

 13 Dec 1961; A. Gronsky. LACM 6711-3 (1, 338); CA, out- 

 side of Newport Beach; 13 Dec 1961; A. Gronsky. LACM 

 6711-4 ( 1, 322); CA, off San Clemente; 15 Sep 1960. LACM 

 6711-1 (1, 355); CA, Los Coronados Is.; 4 Nov 1957; MV 

 Lo-An. LACM 34069-2 (1, 318); CA, between Oceanside 

 and San Clemente; 30 Sep 1972. CAS 56944 (1, 363); CA, 

 between Half Moon and San Francisco bays; 29 Oct 1984; 

 MV Aries. CAS 54921 (1, 335); CA, San Luis Obispo Co., 

 30 mi N of Morro Rock, 7 Sep 1983; MV Mary Beth. LACM 

 6711-11 (I, 340); California; Jun-Jul 1951; MV Coura- 

 geous. LACM 6712-2 (6, 300-325); CA, 23 Fathom Bank; 

 13 Jan 1955; R.D. Collyer; field number SSY 1-2. LACM 

 6711-10 (1, 316); California. LACM 6711-7 (3, 320-340); 

 Baja Calif, Cape San Lucas; May 1950; MV Nancy Rose. 

 LACM 39621-1 (1, 308); Mexico, Pta. Pequera, San 

 Juanico; 24 Nov 1953; J.E. Fitch. CAS 56978 ( 1, 365); Baja 

 California, below Holcombe Pt.; 25 Jul 1958; Walker and 

 Connolly. LACM 6708-2 (3, 313-338); Gulf of California, 

 450 Fathom Bank; 24 Mar 1950; MV Nancy Rose. LACM 

 6709-1 (3, 309-331); Panama Bay, N of Isla Chepillo, 

 8°58'N, 79°10'W; 27 Feb 1954; MV Mayflower. ANSP 89082 

 (2, 340-343); Galapagos, James I., Sullivan Bay; 4 Jul 

 1941; Fifth Vanderbilt Expedition. 



Acknowledgments 



We thank the curators and staffs of the many collec- 

 tions housing specimens of Auxis for permission to 

 study and borrow material: AMNH (Gareth Nelson) 

 AMS (John R. Paxton); ANSP (Eugenia Bohlke) 

 BMNH (Nigel Merrett); BPBM (John E. Randall) 

 CAS (William N. Eschmeyer, Pearl Sonoda); FMNH 

 (Barry Chernoff); GMBL (William D. Anderson, Jr.); 

 HUJ (Dani Golani); ISH (now ZMH, Matthias 

 Stehman); LACM (Robert J. Lavenberg, Jeffrey A. 

 Seigel); MCZ (Karsten Hartel); MNHN (Jean-Claude 

 Hureau, Marie-Louise Bauchot); NMNZ (Clive Rob- 

 erts); NMW (Barbara Herzig); ROM (Richard 



Winterbottom); SIO (Richard Rosenblatt); TU (Royal 

 D. Suttkus); UF (George Burgess); UMMZ (Reeve M. 

 Bailey, William L. Fink); ZRC (formerly USDZ, 

 Kelvin Lim); and ZUMT (Yoshiaki Tominaga). 

 Masahiro Aizawa (ZUMT) was of particular help in 

 translating localities of Japanese Auxis while the first 

 author was working in the ZUMT collections. Will- 

 iam J. Richards generously donated specimens of 

 Auxis from the Gulf of Guinea and provided data and 

 draft manuscripts of work he had in progress on 

 Auxis. Robert J. Lavenberg (LACM) kindly gave the 

 first author free access to John Fitch's data and cor- 

 respondence concerning Auxis. Walter Fischer, then 

 with FAO Rome, made it possible for the first author 

 to participate in the FAO workshop in Cochin, India, 

 in 1980 and to collect and examine fresh material; 

 Kent Carpenter did likewise for the FAO workshop 

 in Manila, Philippines, in 1995. Inocencio Ronquillo 

 sent specimens of Auxis from the Philippines. Tho- 

 mas Munroe, Martha Nizinski, and Stanley Weitz- 

 man assisted with computer analysis of morphomet- 

 ric data. Deborah Loffler and Ruth Gibbons plotted 

 localities for the distribution map. John E. Randall 

 generously provided the slides for the color plate ( Fig. 

 6). Ruth Gibbons painstakingly took and retook pho- 

 tos of the type specimens (Figs. 9 and 13). Thomas 

 Munroe and William Richards made valuable com- 

 ments on drafts of the manuscript. 



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