FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Color in life of a specimen (No. 03455), 17 inches long, from Honolulu, dark above, with steel-blue 
reflections; silvery below; very faint light bands, every other one a solid band separated by rows of 
spots curving downward and backward from pectoral region to ventral line; some very faint indica- 
tions of similar narrow bands behind pectoral, vertical above, curved backward below; soft dorsal and 
anal and dorsal and anal finlets bright lemon-yellow; caudal dusky white with yellow border; ventrals 
white on under surface, black above, a small black spot on base of each; pectoral very dark-blue above, 
black on surface next body, silvery grayish blue on opposite surface; no dark bands or spots on body. 
Color in alcohol, brownish black above, paler on the sides, bluish- white below; fins all dusky; 
pectoral almost black. 
The albacore is known from all related species by the bright yellow color of the finlets. It reaches 
a large size and is occasionally taken on the hook in the open sea and brought into the markets of 
Honolulu and Hilo. It is less common about the Hawaiian Islands, however, than in southern Japan. 
The Japanese shibi ( germo sibi) is apparently the same fish. 
Scomber germo LacCpOde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 598, and III, 1, 1802, 17 0 S. latitude and 103 0 W. longitude. 
Thynnus sibi Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., 97, pi. 50, 1844, Nagasaki, Japan. 
Germo sibi, Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 523 (Honolulu). 
Genus 101. SARDA Cuvier. 
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 jaws 
rather strong, conical, slightly compressed; similar teeth on the palatines, but none on the vomer; 
maxillary not concealed by preorbital; gillrakers long and strong; first dorsal long and rather low, of 
18 to 22 rather stout spines, which are gradually shortened behind; interval between the last spine 
and the second dorsal sh r rt; second dorsal small, followed by 8 or 9 finlets; anal fin similar, usually 
with one fewer finlets; paired fins small; pectorals placed below the level of the pupil; no air-bladder; 
pyloric coeca very numerous, dendritical; vertebrae normally formed, 50 to 54 in number. Fishes of 
rather large size, of metallic coloration. Two species known, one from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Sarda Cuvier, RCgne Anim., Ed. 2, II, 199, 1829 (pelamys= sarda). 
Pelamys Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 149, 1831 (sarda)', not Pelamys ol Daudin, a genus of snakes. 
128. Sarda chilensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). California Bonito. 
Head 3.75; depth 4.75; D. xvin-i, 12-vm; A. 11 , 11-vi. Head pointed, conical, naked; maxillary 
not reaching eye; teeth strong, curved, about 40 in each jaw; pectoral placed just below the level of 
pupil, scarcely half as long as head; gillrakers long, strong, 16 or 17 below angle; corselet moderately 
developed; lateral line undulating, making a sharp curve below soft dorsal. Dark metallic blue; sides 
dusky; several blackish stripes running obliquely upward and backward from the pectoral region to 
the upper edge of the tail, these variable in number and direction. Length 2 to 3 feet; weight 16 
pounds. San Francisco to Patagonia and Japan; abundant northward in summer; very similar to the 
Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda, but with the spinous dorsal always shorter, its flesh similarly coarse, 
dark red, and oily. 
A specimen about 2 feet long recently received from Honolulu belongs without doubt to this species. 
Head 3.5 in length; maxillary extending to a vertical through posterior edge of orbit; ‘6 dark oblique 
stripes on body, the uppermost and lower ones being indistinct; dorsal with 18 spines. This is the 
first record from Hawaii.- It tends to add further probability to the supposition that Sarda lineolata 
Girard, from California, and Sarda orientalis (Schlegel), from Japan, are fully identical with Sarda 
chilensis , as was indicated by us in our Fishes of North and Middle America. 
Pelamys chilensis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 163, 1831, Valparaiso, Chile; Gunther, Cat., II, 368, 1860. 
Pelamys orientalis Temminck & Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 99, pi. 52, 1S50, Japan. 
Pelamys lineolata Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, 106, 1858, San Diego, Cal. 
Sarda chilensis, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North & Mid. Amer., I, 872, 1896. 
