#family_Scombridae__Scombridae  marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna
  supertype:  #fish_family  any of various families of fish
  member of:  #suborder_Scombroidea
  member:  #mackerel  any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
  member:  #genus_Scomber__Scomber  type genus of the Scombridae
     member:  #common_mackerel__shiner__Scomber_scombrus  important food fish of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
     member:  #Scomber_colias__Spanish_mackerel  medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
     member:  #chub_mackerel__tinker__Scomber_japonicus  small mackerel found nearly worldwide
  member:  #genus_Acanthocybium__Acanthocybium  wahoos
     member:  #Acanthocybium_solandri__wahoo  large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide
  member:  #genus_Scomberomorus__Scomberomorus  Spanish mackerels
     member:  #Spanish_mackerel  any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
     member:  #king_mackerel__cavalla__cero__Scomberomorus_cavalla  large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast south to Brazil
     member:  #Scomberomorus_maculatus  large commercially important mackerel of American Atlantic coastal waters
     member:  #cero__pintado__kingfish__Scomberomorus_regalis  large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
  member:  #genus_Thunnus__Thunnus  tunas: warm-blooded fishes
     member:  #tuna__tunny  any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
     member:  #horse_mackerel__horsemackerel__bluefin__bluefin_tuna__bluefintuna__Thunnus_thynnus  largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
     member:  #yellowfin_tuna__yellowfintuna__yellowfin__Thunnus_albacares  may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
  member:  #genus_Sarda__Sarda  bonitos
     member:  #bonito  any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
     member:  #skipjack__Atlantic_bonito__Sarda_sarda  medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
     member:  #Chile_bonito__Chilean_bonito__Sarda_chiliensis  common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
     member:  #Pacific_bonito__Sarda_lineolata__sardalineolata  probably a northern strain of Chile bonito
  member:  #genus_Euthynnus__Euthynnus  a genus of Scombridae
     member:  #skipjack_tuna__skipjack__Euthynnus_pelamis  oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
  member:  #genus_Katsuwonus__Katsuwonus  oceanic bonitos; in some classifications placed in its own family Katsuwonidae
     member:  #oceanic_bonito__oceanicbonito__bonito__Katsuwonus_pelamis  fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna

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