362 SCOMBKIDiE. 



the length of the head 4i. Teeth conspicuous. Back and sides \vith 

 greyish-violet spots and waving transverse streaks. An air-bladder. 

 (Bl) 



Sea of Japan. 



2. THYNNUS*. 



ThjTimis, Cm: <^ Val. viii. p. 57. 



Body oblong ; cleft of the mouth wide. The first dorsal continuous, 

 A\dth the spines rather feeble or of moderate strength, extending on 

 to the second dorsal ; six to nine spurious fins behind the dorsal and 

 anal. Scales of the pectoral region forming a corslet. Teeth rather 

 small, present in the jaws, on the vomer and the palatine bones. A 

 longitudinal keel on each side of the taU. Seven branchiostegals. 

 Air-bladder simple, sometimes absent. Pyloric appendages in ex- 

 ceedingly great number. 



Inhabitants of the open sea, and spread over all the tropical and 

 temperate regions. 



1. Thynnus thynnus. 



The Tunny. Der Tliunfisch. 



Ovvvos, Aristot. ii. c. 13, iv. e. 10, v. c. 9-11, vi. c. 17, viii. e. 2. 12. 



13. 15. 19. 30, ix. c. 2 ; ^Kan. ix. c. 42, xiii. c. 13. 16. 27, xv. c. 3. 



5. 6; Athen. vii. pp. 122, 301, 316, 319 ; Oppian. Hal. ii. p. 48. 

 Thunnus, Odd. Hal. v. 98. 

 Thynnus, P/iii. ix. c. 15 ; Straho, Geoqr. iii. p. 145, v. p. 223 &c., vii. 



p. 320 A, xii. p. 545 D, xvii. p. 834. 

 Thimuus sive Thynnus (Tliinnus), Bellon. p. 108 ; Gesner, pp. 957, 



967, 1148; Wilhu/hby, p. 176. pi. M. 1. f. 3; -R«y,p. 57 ; Schonev. 



p. 75. 

 'OpKvvos, ^lian. i. c. 40 ; Oppian. i. c. 8, ii. p. 59 ; Athen. vii. pp. 301, 



315. 

 Orcynus, Pliti. xxxli. c. 11 ; Gesner, p. 962 ; Alclrov. iii. c. 18. p. 314 ; 



Jonston, t. 3. f. 4 ; Rondel, p. 249. 

 MeXai'Spvy, Athen. xii. p. 315. 

 Melaiidrys, Plin. ix. c. 15. 

 Scomber, no. 2, Artedi, Genera, p. 31. 

 Scomber thynnus, L. Syst. i. p. 493 ; £1. tab. 55 ; £1. Schn. p. 21 5 



Lacep. ii. p. 605 ; Donov. Brit. Fishes, i. pi. 5 ; Fleming, Brit. Anim. 



p. 218 ; 3Iartens, Reise nach Venediq, ii. p. 432 ; Risso, Ichth. Nice, 



p. 163. 

 IMihamel, ii. sect. 7. c. 2; Cetti, Stor. Nat. di Sard. iii. p. 138, &C. ; 



Leguat, Voyage, p. 23. 

 Thynnus mediterraneus, Risso, Eur. Merid. iii. p. 414. 

 vidgaris, Cuv. 8f Val. viii. p. 58. pi. 210 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes, 



i. p. 150 ; Cuv. Regne Anim. HI. Poiss. pi. 45. f. 2 ; Storer, Fishes 



of Massach. p. 47, cop. by Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 105. 



'* 1. Thynnus atlanticus, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 165. — Thyunus balteatus, 

 Cuv. ^- Val. viii. p. 136. — Tropical parts of the Atlantic. 



2. obesus, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 78, and Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. 



p. 4. — Sea of Madeira. 



3. — — orientalis, Temm. # Schkg. Faun. Japoti. Poiss. p. 94. — Sea of Japan. 



4. — — sibi, Temm. # Schkg. Fawi. Japan. Poiss. p. 97. pi. 50.— Sea of 



Japan. 



