Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 871 



1258. OEBMO ALALUNGA (Giuelin). 



(LONG-FINNED ALBACORE ; ALBECOR ; ALILONGHI ; GERMON.) 



Head 3i; depth 3*. D. XIV-II, 12-VIII; A. II, 12-VII. Body little 

 compressed, regularly elliptical, its weight great in proportion to length. 

 Tail strongly keeled, broader than deep, the keel extending forward to 

 tilth finlet from last. Corselet small, indistinct. Scales rather large. 

 Dorsal and anal of equal height; pectoral very long, saber-shaped, 

 reaching to first of the dorsal finlets, shorter in the young, inserted a 

 little below level of pupil, its base a little wider than the large eye ; ven- 

 trals short. Metallic steel-blue; belly silvery; fins dark, with metallic 

 luster. Tropical seas ; pelagic and widely distributed. Rarely seen on 

 the Atlantic Coast of America, but very common in the Mediterranean. 

 It is found on the Pacific Coast as far north as San Francisco, and is 

 extremely abundant in the spawning season about the Santa Barbara 

 Islands. As a food-fish it is of little value, the flesh being coarse and 

 oily, far inferior to that of the Tunny. Length 3 feet ; weight 15 to 20 

 pounds. (Alalunga, a name used in Sardinia, from ala, wing; longus, 

 long.) (Eu.) 



Ala-luwja, CETTI, Hist. Nat. Sard., in, 191, 1777, Sardinia. 



Scomber alalunga, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., 1330, 1788, (Sardinia; baaed on Cetti; misprint for 



" nlaltniga" ). 

 Scomler yermo, LACPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 598, and in, 1, 1802, 17 S. latitude and 103 



W. longitude. 



Tkgmviu aBantiau, LESSON, Voy. Coquille, Zool., u, 165, 1828, Atlantic Ocean. 

 ThynHH* bulteatus, CuviEK & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 136, 1831, tropical parts 



of Atlantic. 

 Tkgmnu pacificus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vni, 133, 1831, 27 and 26 S. 



latitude, 103 W. longitude. 

 T]iynwm arrjenfi-vitlatus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vni, 134, 1831, Atlantic 



and the Indies. 



Thynnus albacora, LOWE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 77, Madeira. 



Thynnus macropterus, TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japan, Poiss., 98, pi. 61, 1850, Japan. 

 Orcynus snbulatus,* POEY, Enumeratio, 71, 1875, Cuba. 

 Orcynus alalonga, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 428, 1883. 

 Albacora alalonga, DRESSLAR & FESLER, I. c., 438, 1889. 



393. SARDA, Cuvier. 



(BONITOS.) 



Snrdft, CrviER, Regne Anim., Ed. 2, u, 199, 1829, (pelamys = sarda) . 



r,:lt,nii*, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm, 149, 1831, (sarda) ; not Pelamys of 

 DAI-BIN, a genus of snakes. 



Body rather elongate, covered with small scales, those of the pectoral 

 region forming a corselet. Caudal peduncle slender, strongly keeled. 

 Head large, pointed, compressed. Mouth large. Teeth in the jaws 



*Poey, in describing Orcynus subulatu*, says the pectoral in subulalus is 1% in anal, 5 in 1i>t;il 

 to base of caudal, % in ventral, f in head. Dr. Liitken unites other doubtful species, dllricora, 

 pacificus, gcrmo, etc., with alalunga. but hesitates to do the same with Kiibiilattts only on account 

 of the length of its pectoral, which he thinks ia a little too long for thynnus and not nearly long 

 enough for alaluwja. 



