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2026. Euthynnus yaito Kishinouye. Kaioakawa; Yaito. 



Japan; Hawaii; Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Euthynnus yaito Kishinouye, Scombroid Fishes, 1923, 420, Japan. 



2027. Euthynnus lineatus Kishinouye. 



Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Euthynnus lineatus Kishinouye, Sici. Gakko, No. Ill, 1920, 113; and 

 in Scombroid Fishes, 1923,430, fig. 2, Manzanillo, Mexico. 



Genus 681. AUXIS Cuvier. Frigate mackerels. 



Auxis Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 199 (Scomber rochei Risso = 

 Scomber thazard Lacepede). 



2028. Auxis rochei (Risso). Frigate mackerel. 



Open Atlantic, at times northward to Cape Cod; perhaps not separable 



from A. thazard (Lacepede) of the South Seas. 

 Scomber rochei Risso, Ichth. Nice, 1810, 165, Nice. 

 Scomber bisus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 45, Palermo. 



Family 163. THUNNID.^. Tunnies and albacores 



Genus 682. SARDA Cuvier. Bonitos. 



Sarda Cuvier, Rdgne Animal, ed. 2, II, 1829, 199 (Scomber pelamys 



Briinnich; not of hinniv'us = Scomber sarda Bloch). 

 Pelamys Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, 149 



(Scomber sarda L.); name preoccupied. 

 Palamita Bonaparte, Ittiologia Generale, 1831, 107, substitute for 



Pelamys. 

 Creotroctes Gistel, Thierreich, X, 1848 (Scomber sarda L.) ; substitute 



for Pelamys, 



2029. Sarda sarda (Bloch). Bonito; Bone jack; Bone-eater; Skipjack. 



Atlantic ocean, on both coasts, north to Cape Cod; very abundant. 

 Scomber sarda Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 44, Europe. 

 Scomber mediterraneus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 23, 



Marseilles; after Briinnich. 

 Scomber pelamitus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 44, pi. 2, Palermo. 



2030. Sarda lineolata ■'^ (Girard). California bonito; Skipjack. 



California, Patagonia ancl Japan; if .S. orientalis is not distinct. 

 'IPelamys chilien.'iis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIIT, 



1831, 118 (163), Valparai-so. 

 "iPelamys orientalis Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., 1844, 



99, pi. 52, Japan. 

 Pelamys lineolata Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, 1858, 106, San Diego, 



Calif. 



2031. Sarda velox Meek and Hildebrand. 



Panama. 



Sarda velox Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool., XV, 

 1923, 320, pi. 24, Panama market. Reported by Nichols and 

 Breder from Block Island, R. I.; probably an error. 



Oe us 683. THUNNUS South. Great tunnies. 



Thynnus Cuvier, Ri'gnc Anim., ed. 1, 1817, 313 (Scomber thynnus L.); 



name preoccupied in Lepidoptera. 

 Thunnus South, Encyclop. Metropol., V, 1845, 620 (Scomber thynnus 



Linnccus); substitute for Thynnus. 

 Albacora Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. V, 1888, 106 (Scomber thynnus L.). 

 Orycnus Cooper, Proc, Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1863, 77 (Scomber 



thynnus L.); not Orycnus Gill, 1861, the name originally a misprint 



for Orcynus. 



2032. Thunnus saliens .Jordan and Evermann. Leaping tuna. 



Eastern Pacific; lower California, north to mouth of Columbia River; 



the type locality Santa Catalina Island. 

 Thunnus saliens Jordan and Evermann, Occ. Papers, Calif. Acad. Sci., 



XII. Sept. 30, 1926, 10, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



«' This species is well separated from Sarda sarda of the Atlantic. Sarda orientalis of Japan and Hawaii 

 Is nearly related, and both may be iaseparablc from S. chiUnsis of Chile, as has been a-ssunied by Jordaa 

 and Evermann (1896;. 



