340 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Group SCOMBROIDEI. The Mackerel-like Pishes. 

 Family CXIX. SCOMBRIDiE. The Mackerels. 



Genus 390. SCOMBER (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



Scomber Artedi, in LininiMis, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 297, 1758 (Hcombrun). 



Siibijcnus srOMHKK (Artcili) LinniPti.s. 



1277. Scomber scombrus Linnanis. Common Mackerel. 



North Athuitic; Norway and Labrador; south to S])ain and ("ape Hatteias. 

 Scomber scombrus Liuuiuus, Syst. Nat., ed, x, 297, 1758, Atlantir. 



Subtroiius I'>KUMATOPH(>RUS .Jordan k Gilbert. 



I'tienmatophorus Jordan & Gilbert. Proc.U.S. N. M. \^'!i2,b'd'd{pneumulophonis). 



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



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



Atlantic and Pacilic, north to England, Maine, and San I'rancisco; Medi- 

 terranean and southern California. 



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



Genus 391. AUXIS Cuvier. Frigate Mackerels. 



-/(/.'is Cuvier, Regue Animal, ed. il, vol. 2, 119, 1829 (rochei). 



1279. Auxis thazard (Lacdpede). Frigate Mackerel. 



All warm seas, occasionally northward to Cape Cod. 



Scomber (hazard Lac<^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 9, 1802, (5^ and 7"- S. lat., coast 

 of New Guinea. 



Genus 392. GYMNOSARDA Gill. Little Tttnnics. 



Gymnosarda Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 125 ( nnicolor). 



1280. Gymnosarda pelamis (Linnaeus). Oceanic Bonito. 



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

 Scomber pelatnis Liumcus, Syst. Nat., ed, X, 297, 1758, " in Pelago inter Trop- 

 icos." 



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



Warm seas; Cape Cod; West Indies; Mediterranean. 



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



Genus 393. THUNNUS South. Great Tunnies. 



Thunnus South, Encyclop. Metropol., v, 620, 1815 (thynnus). 



1282. Thunnus thynnus (Linnieus). Tunny; Horse-mackerel; Great. ilbacore; Tuna. 



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

 cisco, and .Japan. 

 Scomber thynnus Linnreus, Syst. Nat., cd. x, 297, 1758, Europe. 



Genus 394. GEEMO Jordan. .J Ibacores. 



Germo .lordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1888, 180 (alalouga). 



1283. Germo alalunga (Gmelin). Long-finned Albacore; Albecor; AUlonghi; German. 



Mediterranean; San l-'rancisco; Santa Barbara Islands. 

 Scomber alalunga (imeliu, Syst. Nat., i, 1330, 1788, Sardinia. 



Genus 395. SARDA Cuvier. Bonitos. 



Sarda Cuvier, Rcgne Animal, ed. 2, ii, 199, 1829 (pelamys — sarda) 



1284. Sarda sarda (Bloch). Bonito. 



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



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



1285. Sarda chilensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). California Jlonito: skipjack. 



San Francisco to I'atagonia and Ja)>au. 



Felamys chilensia Cuvier A: A'alencienncs, Hist. Nat. Poiss., viii, 1(53, 1831, 

 Nalparaiso. 



