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2033. Thunnus secundodorsalis Storer. 



North Atlantic; New York to Labrador. 



Thunnus secundodorsalis Storer, Hist. Fish. Mass., 1875, 163, PL XXII, 

 fig. 1, Provincetown, Mass. 



2034. Thunnus subulatus (Poej-). 



West Indies; Cuba. 



Orcynus subulatus Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 71, Cuba; perhaps same 

 as T. coretta. 



2035. Thunnus coretta (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Bonita of Martinique. 



West Indies. 



Tynnus coretta Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, 

 102, a young fish 11 inches long from Martinique. 



Genus 684. GERMO Jordan. Long-finned albacores. 



Orcynus Cuvier, Regne Anim., Ed. I, 1817, 314 (Scomber germo 



LRcep^de =^ Scomber alalunga Gmelin; not Orcynus Rafinesque, 1810, 



which is Scomberoides). 

 Germo Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XL, 1888, 180 (Scombrus 



alalonga Gmelin) ; substitute for Orcynus, preoccupied. 



2036. Germo alalunga (Gmelin). Albacore; Alilonghi. 



Mediterranean; Atlantic; all warm seas. 



Scomber alalunga Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 1330, Sardinia; mis- 

 printed Alatmiga. 



Thynnus atlanticus Lesson, Voy. Coquille Zool., II, 1830, 165, Atlantic 

 ocean. 



Thynnus balteatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 

 1831, 98 (136), coast of Brazil ('*\'is-a-vis la Trinitc du Brazil, par les 

 20° de latitude Australe"). 



2037. Germo germo (Lacepede). 



Pacific Ocean; California; Hawaii, Japan, and southward. 



Scomber germo Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1800, 598, lat. 17° S., 



long. 103° W. 

 Thynnus -pacificus Cuvier and Valenciennes, op. cit., VIII, 1831, 96 



(133), lat. 26° S.; long. 103° W. 



Genus 685. NEOTHUNNUS Kishinouye. Yellow-finned albacores. 



Neothunnus Kishinouye, Coll. Agric. Tokyo, VIII, 1923, 445 (Thynnus 

 macro pier us Temminck and Schlegel). 



2038. Neothunnus catalinae Jordan and Evermann. Yellow-finned albacore. 



Open Pacific; southern California, about Santa Catalina Island. 

 Neothunnus catalina' Jordan and Evermann, Occ. Paper No. 12, Calif. 

 Acad. Sci., Sept. 30, 1926, 19, pi. 4, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 



2030. Neothunnus albacores (Bonnaterre). West Indies long-finned albacore. 

 West Indies. 

 Scomber albacores Bonnaterre, Encyc. Ichth., 1788, 140, Jamaica; ba.sed 



on Sloane; not albacora Lowe. 

 Scomber sloani Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, 

 107 (148), Jamaica; after Sloane. 



2040. Neothunnus allisoni (Mowbray). Allison's tuna. 



Coast of Florida. 



Thunnus allisoni Mowbray, Copeia, No. 78, 1920, 9, with text fig., 

 Biscayne Bay, east coast of Florida. 



Family 164. GEMPYLIDJE. Snake mackerel ; Escolares 



Genus 685. ESCOLAR Jordan and Evermann. 



Escolar Jordan and Evermann, in Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 



1896, 519 (Thyrsiiops violaceus Bean). 

 Bipinnula Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1896, 



878 (Thyrsiiops violaceus Bean); duplication of names accidental 



through noncorrection of proofs. 



2041. Escolar violaceus (Bean). 



Atlantic coast of America in deep water; LaHave Bank. 

 Thyrsiiops violaceus Bean, Proc. LJ. S. Nat. Mas., .X, 1887, 513, LaHave 

 Bank; perhaps the same as Escolar niger. 



