#scombroid_fish__scombroidfish__scombroid  important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
  supertype:  #percoid_fish__percoidfish__percoid__percoidean  any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
  member of:  #suborder_Scombroidea
  subtype:  #mackerel  any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
     subtype:  #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
     subtype:  #Scomber_colias__Spanish_mackerel  medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
     subtype:  #chub_mackerel__tinker__Scomber_japonicus  small mackerel found nearly worldwide
     subtype:  #Acanthocybium_solandri__wahoo  large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide
     subtype:  #Spanish_mackerel  any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
        subtype:  #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
        subtype:  #Scomberomorus_maculatus  large commercially important mackerel of American Atlantic coastal waters
        subtype:  #cero__pintado__kingfish__Scomberomorus_regalis  large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
        subtype:  #Scomberomorus_sierra__sierra  a Spanish mackerel of western North America
  subtype:  #tuna__tunny  any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
     subtype:  #long-fin_tunny__albacore__Thunnus_alalunga  large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
     subtype:  #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
     subtype:  #yellowfin_tuna__yellowfintuna__yellowfin__Thunnus_albacares  may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
  subtype:  #bonito  any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
     subtype:  #skipjack__Atlantic_bonito__Sarda_sarda  medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
     subtype:  #Chile_bonito__Chilean_bonito__Sarda_chiliensis  common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
     subtype:  #Pacific_bonito__Sarda_lineolata__sardalineolata  probably a northern strain of Chile bonito
  subtype:  #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
  subtype:  #oceanic_bonito__oceanicbonito__bonito__Katsuwonus_pelamis  fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
  subtype:  #Xiphias_gladius__swordfish  large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
  subtype:  #sailfish  large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin
     subtype:  #Atlantic_sailfish__Istiophorus_albicans  a kind of sailfish
  subtype:  #billfish  giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
     subtype:  #marlin__spearfish  large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
        subtype:  #blue_marlin__Makaira_nigricans  largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas
        subtype:  #Makaira_mazara__black_marlin__blackmarlin  Pacific marlin
        subtype:  #black_marlin__blackmarlin__Makaira_marlina  Pacific marlin
        subtype:  #striped_marlin__stripedmarlin__Makaira_mitsukurii  Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes
        subtype:  #white_marlin__whitemarlin__Makaira_albida  small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic
     subtype:  #spearfish  any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
  subtype:  #louvar__Luvarus_imperialis  large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton
  subtype:  #squaretail  sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters

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