PLATE 58 
PLATE CXX. 
SCOMBER SCOMBER. 
MACKAREL. 
«»* PISCES THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head compressed, smooth : branchiostegeous membrane of seven 
rays. Body smooth ; lateral line carinated behind. Generally some 
Spurious fins near the tail. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Spurious fins five both above and beneath. 
Scomber scomber : pinnulis quinque In margine utroquc caudae. 
Bloch Fisch. Deutschl. 2./?. 8S. n. 1. /. 54. 
Scomber scomber : pinnulis quinque. Linn. In. Suec. 339. Gmel. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. T.l.p. 1328. sp. 1. 
Scomber pinnulis quinque in extreme dorso, spina bievi ad anum. 
Art. gen. 30. syn. 48. spec. 68. 
Palamis corpore castigate, &c. Klein, miss. pise. 5. p.V2. n. 5. 
t. 4./. 1. 
^lackarel. Pise. p. 58. 
Willlchth.p.\9:\. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 221. 
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