Waite — Fishes of South Australia 



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Sub-Order SCOMBROIDEA. 



Family SCOMBRIDAE. 



THUNNUS South, 1845 (thyniius). 



THUNNUS THYNNUS Linnaeus (Tunny). 



Scomher thijiiniis Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x), 1758. p. 207. 



Scomher alhacorci^ Bonnat., Encycl. Tclith., 1788, j). 120. 



Thyinnis n\editerrfnieui< Risso, Enr. Merid.. iii, 1826, yi. 414. 



ThyiDius i'ul(j(ni.'i, T. hrdchupirrus, T. corctiit and Scomhrr shxDiei ('nv. & \'al., 



Hist. Nat. Poiss.. viii, 1831, ]). r^H. «)8, 102, 148, pi. ccx, ccxi. 

 Thijiiiius iiKiccoijii Cast., P.Z.S., ^'i('t., i, 1872, p. 104; Roiighley, Fish. Aust., 



1916, p. 164, pi. Ivii. 

 Thijinnis t]nj)nnix McCoy, Prod. Zool. \'ict.. dec v, 1880, p\. xliv, fig'. 2. 

 Orcijiiiis srh^rfjrlii Stcind. & D()dor.. Denlc. Akad. Wiss. Wi^n, xlvii, 1884, p. 



10, pi. iii, fio'. 1. 

 Alhaconi fhjj)nn(s -lord., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1(S88, p. 180. 



Fiii'. 224. Tlniinius UiyiiDUfi. 



Tile famous Tuiui of Aiuci-ican anglers; reaches a \vci>>'lit of 1,500 U). The 

 ficsli of large exaniph's is very oily. 



SCOMBER Linnaeus, 1758 (scoinhrus). 



SCOMBER OOLIAS Gmelin (Mackerel). 



Scomber colias (Jmel., Syst. Nat. (ed. xiii), 178!), p. 1829; Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., viii, 1831, p. 39, pi. ccix ; Day, Fish. (It. Brit. & Irel., i, 1881, p. 91, 

 pi. xxxiv; Stead, Edib. Fi.sh. N.S.AV., 1908, p. 94, pi. Ixiii ; Ronghley, Fish. 

 Aust., 1916, p. 162, pi. Ivi. 



