
Family | Scientific Name | Author | Year | Common Name |
Scombridae | Sarda sarda | (Bloch) | 1793 | Atlantic Bonito |
Sarda sarda
Unique Characters: Two small keels and a large median keel between them on either side of caudal peduncle. 7-10 dorsal and 7-10 anal finlets. Adipose eyelids absent. Teeth in jaws slender, conical, hardly compressed. Corselet of scales well developed. Upper surface of tongue without cartilaginous longitudinal ridges. 5-10 narrow, longitudinal stripes on upper part of body. 20-23 spines in first dorsal fin.
Similar Species: None.
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