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1258. (iERMO ALALUXGA (Gmejin). 

 (Long-finned Albacore ; Albecob ; Alilonuiii ; Germon.) 



Head 3i; depth 3^. D. XIV-II, I'i-VIII; A. II, 12-VII. Body little 

 compressed, regularly elliptical, its weight great iu proportion to length. 

 Tail strongly keeled, broader than deep, the keel extending forward to 

 fifth finlet from last. Corselet small, indistinct. Scales rather large. 

 Dorsal and anal of equal height; pectoral very long, saber-shaped, 

 reaching to first of the dorsal tinlets, shorter in the young, inserted a 

 little below level of pupil, its base a little wider than the large eye ; ven- 

 trals short. Metallic steel-blue; belly silvery; fins dark, with metallic 

 luster. Tropical seas ; pelagic and widely distributed. Rarely seen on 

 the Atlantic Coast of America, but very common in the Mediterranean. 

 It is found on the Pacific Coast as far north as San Francisco, and is 

 extremely abundant in the spawning season about the Santa Barbara 

 Islands. As a food-fish it is of little value, the flesh being coarse and 

 oily, far inferior to that of the Tunny. Length 3 feet; weight 15 to 20 

 pounds. (Alalunga, a name used in Sardinia, from ala, wing; Jongus, 

 long.) (Eu.) 



^?rt-/!m(/«, Cetti, Hist. Nat. Sard., in, 191, 1777, Sardinia. 



Scomber alalunga, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1330, 1788, (Sardinia; based on Cetii; misprint for 



" (I?((/h)!!/(1 " ). 



Scomler ij':niio, Lac£p£de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 598, and in, 1, 1802, 17° S. latitude and 103" 



^V. longitude. 

 Thiinins nlhmlicus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., 11, 165, 182S, Atlantic Ocean. 

 Tlqimuis hdlteatns, CuviEU & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vili, 136, 1831, tropical parts 



of Atlantic. 

 Thi/miHs pacijicus, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 133, 1831, 27° and 26'^ S. 



latitude, 103° W. longitude. 

 Thi/uuu.i argenti-vitlatus, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 134, 1S31, Atlantic 



and the Indies. 

 Thijnrms albacora, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 77, Madeira. 



Thijnmis macroptertis, Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japan, Poiss., 98, pi. 51, 1850, Japan. 

 Ofcyiuis siihulatiis,* Poey, Euunieratio, 71, 1875, Cuba. 

 Orcynns aJc'loiifia, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 428, 1883. 

 Albacora alalouya, Dbesslar & Fesler, I. c, 438, 1889. 



393. SARDA, Cuvier. 



(BONITOS.) 



Snrdn, CuviER, Regno Anim., Ed. 2, 11, 199, 1829, {pelami/s = sarda). 



Pda)ii!i/<, CuviEB & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 149, 1831, (sanla); not Pelamiis ol 

 Dai'DIN, a geniiB of .snakes. 



Body rather elongate, covered with small scales, those of the pectoral 

 region forming a corselet. Caudal peduncle slender, strongly keeled. 

 Head large, pointed, compressed. Mouth large. Teeth in the jaws 



*Poey, in describing Orci/nus subulalus, says the pectoral in aubulalus is I70. in anal, 5 in total 

 to base of caudal, y, in ventral, ? in head. Dr. LiVtken unites other doubtful species, albicoru, 

 paciliciis, fjcrmo, etc.^ with ulalunga. but hesitates to do ihe same with sidmlaliis only on account 

 of the length of its iiectoral, which ho thinks is a little too long for tliymms and not nearly long 

 enough for ulaluwja. 



