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Family 160. CYBIIDiE « 



Genus 675. SIERRA Fowler. 



Sierra Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LVI, 1904 (1905), 766 

 {Cybium cavalla Cuvier). 



2014. Sierra cavalla (Cuvier). Sierra; Kingfish; Cavalla. 



Tropical Atlantic; Florida Keys and Charleston; Cape Cod; Africa; 



Brazil. 

 Cybium cavalla Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, II, 1829, 200; after Guara- 



puca of Marcgrave. 

 Cybium immaculatum Cu\aer and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 



1831, 140 (191), no localitv. 

 Cybium caballa Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 187, Brazil. 



Genus 676. SCOMBEROMORUS Lacepede. 



Scomberomorus Lacepede, Hist. Xat. Poi.ss., Ill, 1802, 292 {S. plumieri 

 Lacepede = 5com6er regalis Bloch). 



Polipturus Rafinesque, Anal, de la Nat., 1815, 89; substitute for Scom- 

 beromorus. 



Chriomitra Lockington, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., XXXI, 1879, 133 

 (C concolor Lockington). 



2015. Scomberomorus maculatus (Mitchill). Spanish mackerel; Spaniard; 



Spotted cybium; Bay mackerel; Spotted mackerel. 

 East coa.st of America from Cape Ann to Brazil; common in Gulf of 



Mexico but not recorded from Cuba. 

 Scomber maculatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soe. N. Y., I, 1815, 426, 



New York; not of Couch. 



2016. Scomberomorus sierra Jordan and Starks. Sierra. 



Pacific coa.st of tropica! .\merica. 



Scomberomorus sierra Jordan and Starks, in Jordan, Proc. Calif. .\cad. 

 Sci., V, 1895, 428, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



2017. Scomberomorus regalis (Bloch). Sierra; Pintado; Cero; Sier; Siering; 



Sean r; Spotted cero; Kingfish; Black-spotted Spanish mackerel. 



Cape Cod to Brazil; Cuba. 



Scomber regalis Bloch, Naturgesch. ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 38, Marti- 

 nique; after a drawing by Plumicr. 



Scomberomorus plumieri Laceji^'dd, Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., Ill, 1802, 292, 

 Martiiiif|ue. 



Cybium arervum Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, 

 1.3(1 (lS(t), Martinifpie; Cuba; St. Domingo. 



2018. Scomberomorus concolor (Lockington). Monterey Spanish mackerel. 



Coast of California. 



Chriomitra concolor Lockington, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXXI, 

 1879, 133, Monterey, Calif. 



Family 161. SCOMBRIDiE 



Genus 677. SCOMBER Linnaeus. 



Scomber Artedi, in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 297 {S. scombrus 



Linna-us). 

 Cordylus Gronow, Cat. Fi.sh., 1854, 163 {Scomber scombrus L.). 



2019. Scomber scombrus Linnajus. Common mackerel; Boston mackerel; 



W awwhmmekcsuog ; Caballa. 

 North Atlantic; Norway and Labrador, south to Spain and Cape 



Hatteras. 

 Scomber scombrus Linnams, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 297, Atlantic. 

 Scomber vernalis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 



423, Sandy Hook, N. J. 



Genus 678. PNEUMATOPHORUS Jordan and Gilbert. 



I'ncnmaloyhorus Jcjidan and Gilbert, Proc. I,'. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 593 {Scomber pneumatophorus De la lioch(i = Scomber colias Gmelin). 



** The family name Cybiidsr may be applied to ttie allies of Scomberomorus and Cybium. Ttie name 

 may he preferred to one derived from Scomberomorus, as ttie Kenus Cybium is also valid. Cybium com- 

 memoni, ttie Asiatic type of Cybium f'uvier, lias tiut two KiHrakers, wtiile in Scomberomorus there are 8 to 

 11 below the angle. Acanlhocybium (giant fishes with the retiiMJlaled Kills of a swordfish) should con.stituto 

 B separate family. The earliest of the many fossils of this type are mainly allies of Hcomberovtorut. 



