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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
This species is common in the markets at Honolulu and Hilo in the summer, being taken with 
the hook in the open sea. 
Scomber quadripunctatus Geoffrey St. Hilaire, Descr. Egypt. Poiss., pi. 24, tig. 5, 331, about 1814, Red Sea. 
Scomber alletteratus llafinesque, Caratteri, 46, 1810, Palermo. 
Thynnus leachianus Risso, Enr. M£rid., II, 414, 1826, Nice. 
Tliynnus thunnina Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 104, 1831, Mediterranean. 
Thynnus brasiliensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit. , VIII, 110, 1831, Brazil. 
Thynnus brevipinnis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., VIII, 112, 1831, Mediterranean. 
Gymnosarda alleterata Jordan & Evermann, Fish. North & Mid. Amer., 869, fig. 366, PI. CXXXIV, 1896; Jordan & Evermann, 
Amer. Food and Game Fishes, 278, 1902; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 441 (Honolulu). 
Genus 100. GERMO Jordan. The Albacores. 
Pectoral fins very long, saber-shaped, their length in the adult about two-fifths the length of the 
body. Otherwise essentially as in Thunnus, to which this genus is very closely related. Size large, 
but much less than that of the species of Thunnus. 
Orcynus Cuvier, ROgne Animal, Ed. 1, II, 314, 1817 ( alalonga ); not Orcynus Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, 1816, which 
is equivalent to Scombroides. 
Qermo Jordan, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1888, 180 (alalonga). 
127. Germo germo (Lacepede). “AM;” Albacore. Fig. 66. 
Head 3.6 in length; depth 3.9; eye 5.7 in head; snout 3; interorbital 3; maxillary 2.5; mandible 
2.2; gape 2.7; D. xiv-ii, 12+8; A. n, 12-(-7. 
Body short, stout, fusiform, scarcely compressed, dorsal and ventral profiles curving gradually, 
body deepest at the middle; head moderate, sharply conic; snout short, pointed, the jaws subequal; 
maxillary reaching below middle of pupil, slipping under the thin preorbital; teeth on jaws in a single 
row, small and bluntly conic, villiform patch on vomer, none on palatines; eye large, in anterior half 
of head; opereles smooth, skin of preopercular edge finely denticulate, as is also the upper edge of 
opercle; caudal peduncle slender, short, depressed, least depth not exceeding half diameter of eye, the 
least width 1.5 in eye; origin of spinous dorsal slightly posterior to base of pectoral, the first spine 2.5 
in head, the fin folding completely in a groove; soft dorsal and anal similar, rays elevated, each about 
3 in head; caudal very broadly forked, each lobe about 1.3 in head; pectoral long, slender, reaching 
origin of anal, inserted below line of eye, the length equaling that of head; ventrals short, fitting into 
a depression, their length 2.7 in head; scales small, cycloid, covering entire body, somewhat larger 
along back; corselet distinct, scales on it large, coarsely ctenoid. 
