#suborder_Scombroidea__Scombroidea  mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes
  supertype:  animal_order  the order of animals
  member of:  order_Perciformes
  member:  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
  member:  family_Scombridae__Scombridae  marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna
     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
  member:  Katsuwonidae__family_Kasuwonidae  in some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos
  member:  family_Xiphiidae__Xiphiidae  comprising the common swordfishes
     member:  genus_Xiphias__Xiphias  type genus of the Xiphiidae
        member:  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
  member:  family_Istiophoridae__Istiophoridae  sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins
     member:  sailfish  large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin
     member:  genus_Istiophorus__Istiophorus  type genus of the Istiophoridae
        member:  Atlantic_sailfish__Istiophorus_albicans  a kind of sailfish
     member:  billfish  giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
     member:  genus_Makaira__Makaira  marlins
        member:  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
     member:  genus_Tetrapturus__Tetrapturus  a genus of Istiophoridae
        member:  spearfish  any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
  member:  family_Luvaridae__Luvaridae  louvars
     member:  genus_Luvarus__Luvarus  type genus of the Luvaridae
        member:  louvar__Luvarus_imperialis  large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton

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