90 CHECK LIST OP FISHES OP THE DOMINION. 



357. Thunnus thynnus Linnfeus. 

 Tunny: Horse Mackerel. 

 Pelagic. 



Occurs on the Atlantic coast of Canada and the United States, around the coast of New- 

 foundland and at the Loffoden Islands: also on the Pacific coasts as far northward 

 as California and Japan: "abundant in the Mediterranean and ranging to the south 

 coast of England and to Tasmania" (Gunther, 1880): Yarrell (1859) says it has~"been 

 taken among the islands west and north of Scotland" and at a few other Scottish 

 localities, and mentions "two instances of its having been taken on the Irish coast": 

 occurs also in the Indian Ocean (Boulenger, 1910). 



358. Germo alalunga Gmelin. 

 Lorrgfinned Albacore. 

 Pelagic. 



Widely distributed, but rare on the Atlantic coast of America: a specimen obtained at 

 Banquereau at a depth of 300 fathoms in the summer of 1878 (Jones, 1879, as Orcynus 

 alatunga) : occurs on the Pacific coast northward to' California, and abundant at the 

 Santa Barbara Islands: "very common in the Mediterranean.''" 



369. Sarda sarda Bloch. 



Bonito. 



Pelagic. 



Abundant in Atlantic Ocean northward to Cape Cod: occasional on coast of Nova Scotia — 

 "a very rare fish in these waters" (Piers, 1902): "a young example captured at the 

 mouth of Halifax Harbour" (Jones, 1879, as S. pelamys if such signifies this species) : 

 inhabits the open ocean, and occurs on both sides of the Atlantic. 



360. Sarda chilensis Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 California Bonito. 



Marine. 



British Columbia: ranging in the Pacific Ocean from Patagonia to Japan. 



361. Escolar violaceus Bean. 

 Escolar. 



Bathybial. 



Type specimen* from La Have Bank, off Nova Scotia (Bean, 1887, as Thyrsitops violaceus) : 

 "lives in the abysses of the Gulf Stream" (Jordan, 1905). 



362. Benthodesmus atlanticus Goode and Bean. 



Marine. 



"One specimen taken from the stomach of a halibut caught on the western edge of the 

 Grand Banks of Newfoundland in 80 fathoms" (Jordan and Evermann). 



♦This specimen is figured in Drs. Jordan and Evermann's 'Fishes of North and Middle America,' vol. IV, pi. 

 CXXX V, and the specimen of the following species {Benthodesmus atlanticus) in pi. CXXXVI. 



