Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 869 



Scomber pelamif, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 297, 1758, "in Pelago inter Tropicos." 



Scomber pdamides, LAC IMPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 14, 1802; after LINN^F.US. 



ThyniiH* pelatnys, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 113, 1831. 



Tliynntis pc1<tmis, STEINDAOHNER, Ichth. Berichtc, v, 7, 1868. 



Ore/inn* peJmnys, POF.Y, Synopsis, 362, 1868; GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., 1878, 24. 



Et)i>niu* i>elm!is, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 430, 1883. 



Gymnosarda itelamis, DRESSLAR & FESLEB, I c., 436, 1889. 



1256. GYMNOSARDA ALLETERATA (Bafinesque). 

 (LITTLE TUNNY; BONITO.) 



Head 3; depth 4J. D. XV-I, 12-VIII; A. 12-VII. Body fusiform, 

 robust. Lateral line nowhere making a very distinct curve. Corselet 

 well developed, not covering the entire space between the diagonals con- 

 necting the posterior extremity of spinous dorsal and base of pectorals. 

 Posterior margin of preopercle about 2 in inferior margin. Pectorals 

 reaching vertical from ninth dorsal spine. Bluish above; sides and belly 

 silvery ; no stripes of any kind below lateral line; above lateral line sev- 

 eral wavy, oblique streaks; 5 round black spots about as large as pupil 

 below pectoral. 'Warm seas, occasionally northward to Cape Cod; com- 

 mon in the West Indies and the Mediterranean ; not recorded from Califor- 

 nia. (Alleteratu, a local name in use at Palermo.) (Eu.) 

 Scomber alletteratus, KAFINESQUE, Caratteri Alcuni Genere, etc., 46, 1810, Palermo. 

 Thynnusleachianus, Risso, Eur. Merid., in, 414, 1826, Nice. 



Scomber quadripunctatus, GEOFFREY ST. HILAIRE, Descr. Egypt. Poiss., pi. 24, fig. 3, 1827, Egypt. 

 Tfiynnus thunnina, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 104, 1831, Mediterranean. 

 Tltynnm Iraniliennis, CUVIEE & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 110, 1831, Brazil. 

 Tliynnus breripinnis, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 112, 1831, Mediterranean. 

 Orcynus alliteratm, GILL, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., in Kept. U. S. Fish Comm., 802, 1873. 

 EtithynntisaUiteralus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 430, 1883. 

 Thynnichthys tlnwnina, GIGLIOLI, Cat. dei Pesci Italiani, 25, 1880. 

 Orcynns (hitnnina, POEY, Enumeratio, 72, 1875. 



Tliynnus affinis, CANTOR, Cat. Malay Fishes, 106, 1850, Sea of Pinang. 

 ThynnicMnjs brevipinnis, GIGUOLI, Cat. dei Pesci Italiani, 25, 1880. 



391. THUNNUS, South. 

 (GREAT TUNNIES.) 



Tliynmts, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. i, 313, 1817, (Uiijunus; not of FABRICIUS, 1775, a genus of 



Butterflies). 



Tltimnits, SOUTH,' Encyclop. Metropol.,v, 620, 1845, (thynnm); (fide GILL). 

 Orycnus, COOPER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1863, 77, (Uojnmu; not Onjcmu, GILL, 1861, which was 



originally a misprint for Oreynus). 

 Albacora, JORDAN, Man. Vert., Ed. v, 106, 1888, (thynnm). 



Body oblong, robust, with very slender caudal peduncle. Head conical. 

 Month wide, with one series of small, conical teeth in the jaws and bands 

 of minute villiform or sand-like teeth on the vomer and palatines. Scales 

 present, those of the pectoral region forming an obscure corselet. First 

 dorsal of 12 to 15 spines which grow gradually shorter backward, the 

 interval between last spine and second dorsal slight ; second dorsal and 

 anal short and rather high, each with 8 to 10 finlets ; ventrals moderate ; 

 pectorals moderate, inserted rather below the level of the eye. Vertebrae 



