alletteratus, Scomber Rafinesque [C. S.] 1810:46, Pl. 2 (fig. 3) [Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia; ref. 3594] [Palermo] Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Spelled aletteratus on plate. Also appeared in Rafinesque 1810:23 [ref. 3595] as Scomber aletteratus. Spellings alleteratus and alliteratus are regarded as misspellings. •Synonym of Auxis rochei (Risso 1810) -- (Postel 1973:470 [ref. 7208]). •Valid as Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque 1810) -- (Collette & Nauen 1983:34 [ref. 5375], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:421 [ref. 14275], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:985 [ref. 13676], Robins & Ray 1986:261 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:449 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:179 [ref. 14674], Collette 1990:980 [ref. 19476], Boschung 1992:168 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:415 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1994:244 [ref. 24488], Randall 1995:373 [ref. 22896], Murdy et al. 1997:184 [ref. 23144], Arruda 1997:100 [ref. 24952], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:330 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:80 [ref. 25466], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:141 [ref. 26753], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:518 [ref. 26158], Collette 2003:1845 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:4 [ref. 27312], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:102 [ref. 27192] as alleteratus, Parin 2003:S28 [ref. 28536], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:415 [ref. 28072], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:60 [ref. 37112], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:777 [ref. 28815], Fricke 2007:27 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:110 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:179 [ref. 30517], Randall 2007:448 [ref. 30952], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:69 [ref. 36649], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:134 [ref. 32972], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:83 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:511 [ref. 33547], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2904 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565], Golani & Fricke 2018:170 [ref. 36273], Martins & Carneiro 2018:62 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Carneiro et al. 2019:167 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Parenti 2019:101 [ref. 37117], Collette & Graves 2019:53 [ref. 37341], Reiner 2019:278 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:82 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Robertson et al. 2020:161 [ref. 38098], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:83 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:35 [ref. 39014], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:436 [ref. 38945], Fermon et al. 2022:213 [ref. 39448], Carvalho-Filho 2023:249 [ref. 40480], Martínez-Servín et al. 2023:116 [ref. 40726]). Current status: Valid as Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque 1810). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia (Canada) south to southern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic. Habitat: brackish, marine.