340 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Group SCOMBROIDEI. The Mackerel-like Fishes. 



Family CXIX. SCOMBRID^. The Mackerels. 



Genus 390. SCOMBEE (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



Scomber Artedi, iu Liunasus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 297, 1758 (ncovibrus). 



Subgenus SCOMBER (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



1277. Scomber scombrus Linnaeus. Common Mackerel. 



North Atlantic ; Norway and Labrador; south to Spain and Cape Hatteras. 

 Scomber scombrus Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 297, 1758, Atlantic. 



Subgenus PNECMATOPHOBDS Jordiin & Gilbert. 



Pneumatophorus Jordan «fe Gilbert. Proc.U.S. N. M. 1882,593 (jpneumatophorus) . 



1278. Scomber colias Gmelin, Chub Mackerel; Tinker Mackerel; Easter Mackerel; 



Thimble-eyed Mackerel ; "Spanish Mackerel " of England. 



Atlantic and Pacific, north to England, Maine, and 8au Prancisco; Medi- 

 terranean and southern Calit'oriiia. 



Scomber colias Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. xiii, 1329, 1788, Sardinia. 



Genus 391. AUXIS Cuvier. Frigate Mackerels. 

 Auxis Cuvier, Rcgne Animal, ed. ii, vol. 2, 119, 1829 (rochet). 



1279. Auxis thazard (Lacepcde). Frigate Mackerel. 



All warm seas, occasionally northward to Cape Cod. 



Scomber thazard Laci^.pede, Hist. Nat, Poiss., iii, 9, 1802, 6^ and 7^ S. lat., coast 

 of New Guinea. 



Genus 392. GYMNOSARDA Gill. Little Tunnies. 



Gymnosarda Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 125 {unicolor). 



1280. Gymnosarda pelamis (Linnaeus). Oceaiiic Bonito. 



Warm seas; north to Cape Cod and Bermudas on the Atlantic Coast. 

 Scomber pelamis Linna>us, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 297, 1758, "in Pelago inter Trop- 

 icos." 



1281. Gymnosarda alleterata (Ratinesque). LittJe Tunny; Bonito. 



Warm seas; Cape Cod; West Indies; Mediterranean. 



Scomber alletteratus Ratinesque, Carat. Alcuui Gen., etc., 46, 1810, Palermo. 



Genus 393. THUNNUS South. Great Tunnies. 



Thunnus South, Encyclop. Metropol., v, 620, 1845 (thynnus). 



1282. Thunnus thynnus (Linn;eus). Tunny; Horse-mackerel; Great Alhacore; Tuna. 



Cape Cod and off all coasts : north to England, Newfoundland, San Fran- 

 cisco, and Japan. 

 Scomber thynnus Linnaius, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 297, 1758, Europe. 



Genus 394. GERMO Jordan. Albacores. 



Germo Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1888, 180 (alalonga). 



1283. Germo alalunga (Gmelin). Long-finned Alhacore; Alhecor; AUlonghi; Germon. 



Mediterranean; San Francisco; Santa Barbara Islands. 

 Scomber alalunga Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1330, 1788, Sardinia. 



Genus 395. SARDA Cuvier. Bonitos. 



Sarda Cuvier, Rfegne Animal, ed. 2, ii, 199, 1829 (pelamys --^ sarda) 



1284. Sarda sarda (Bloch). Bonito. 



Atlantic Ocean, on both coasts, north to Cape Cod. 



Scomber sarda Bloch, Ichthyologia, x, 35, pi. 334, 1793, Europe. 



1285. Sarda chilensis (Cuvier &. Valenciennes). California Bonito; Skipjack. 



San Francisco to Patagonia and Japan. 



Felamys chilensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., viii, 163, 1831, 

 Valparaiso. 



