(1964) and Porter (1968) in listingrs and abbre- 

 viations of the titles of journals. In addition, 

 all junior authors are listed alphabetically with 

 references to their respective i^ai^ers. To 

 further assist readers in finding cited publica- 

 tions, the second part lists abbreviations and 

 full titles of periodicals. 



The subject index comprises the third part 

 of the bibliography. This index is arranged 

 alphabetically by taxa; within each taxon there 

 are three subdivisions— (i) eggs, (ii) larvae, 

 and (iii) juveniles. Each subdivision has four 

 parts — (i) description, (ii) distribution, (iii) 

 collection methods, and (iv) general biology. 

 The description portion includes papers which 

 describe the morphology of the animal; the dis- 

 tribution section includes papers which describe 

 geographic distribution and abundance; the 

 collection method section includes papers which 

 describe methods; and the general biology por- 

 tion includes papers which discuss biological 



aspects not covered in the jirevious sections, 

 i.e., growth, behavior, culture, temperature 

 and salinity tolerances, diurnal movements, etc. 

 Where no references were found it is noted as 

 "no references found." 



The taxa employed in the index conform with 

 the most recent systematic reviews available. 

 The systematic reviews which we followed 

 were: Fraser-Brunner (1950); Collette and 

 Gibbs (1963); Gibbs and Collette (1967); and 

 Matsui (1967). The genera and species of the 

 family Scombridae together with the geograph- 

 ical distribution of each of the species are listed 

 in Table 1. For the purpose of indexing, each 

 bibliographical entry was classified according 

 to its respective species whenever feasible. 

 When this was not possible the next highest 

 taxon was used. In the subject index, taxa 

 such as Thunnidae and Katsuwonidae appear 

 because several papers use these taxa and thus 

 they remain convenient for our purposes. 



