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3uvier aud Valenciennes, taken in the south Pacific, appears to 

 )e closely related. 



Family scoiviBEREsociD^a..E 



Sauries 



Genus scomberesox Lac^pMe 



Body elongate, compressed, covered with small, thin, decidu- 

 )us scales, the general aspect being that of a mackerel; both 

 aws in the adult more or less prolonged, forming a slender 

 3eak, the lower jaw always the longer, teeth very feeble, 

 3ointed, maxillaries joined fast to premaxillaries; pectoral and 

 centrals small; dorsal and anal low, similar to each other, each 

 ;vith four to six detached finlets, as in the Scombridae; gill 

 'akers numerous, long and slender; pharyngeal bones essen- 

 ;ially as in E x o c o e t u s , fourth upper pharyngeal on each 

 jide wanting or fused with the third, third pharyngeal greatly 

 mlarged, separate from its fellow, covered with tricuspid teeth, 

 second with simple teeth, first toothless, lower pharyngeals 

 mited, forming a triangular bone with concave surface, covered 

 vith tricuspid teeth; into the hollow of this bone the upper 

 )haryngeals fit. 



Pelagic fishes, swimming close to the surface in large schools 

 n temperate regions. They bear strong analogic resemblances 

 to the mackerels in form, color and habits, as well as in the 

 iorsal and anal finlets. The significance of these resemblances 

 s unknown. 



Young with the jaws short, precisely as in the genus C o 1 o - 



1 a b i s , but lengthening with age, which is not the case in 



C o 1 o 1 a b i s . Air bladder large. 



Atlantic. 



163 Scomberesox saurus (Walbaum) 



Saury; Skipper 



Esox sanrvs Walbaum, Aitedi. Gen. Pise. Ill, 93, 1792, Cornwall. 

 Scomberesox scutellatttm Le Sueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. II, 132. 1821, 



Newfoundland. 

 Scomberesox eqnirostrvm Le Sueuk. Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. II, 132, 



1821. 



