Scomber Linnaeus [C.] 1758:297 Masc. Scomber scombrus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Gill 1862:125 [ref. 1659]. On Official List (Opinion 77, Direction 56). Two subgenera were recognized by Collette (1999 [ref. 23936]): the monotypic Scomber (Scomber) for S. scombrus and Scomber (Pneumatophorus) for the other 3 species in the genus, S. australasicus, S. colias, and S. japonicus. •Valid as Scomber Linnaeus 1758 -- (Postel 1973:465 [ref. 7208], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:282 [ref. 7348], Collette & Nauen 1983:55 [ref. 5375], Collette et al. 1984:600 [ref. 11421], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:224 [ref. 6441], Collette 1986:835 [ref. 5647], Gomon et al. 1994:823 [ref. 22532], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:990 [ref. 13676], Stepien & Rosenblatt 1996:586 [ref. 22296], Scoles et al. 1998:823 [ref. 23817], Collette et al. 2001:5 [ref. 25629], Collette 2001:3722 [ref. 26305], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:805 [ref. 25968], Collette 2003:1837 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:8 [ref. 27312], Parin 2003:S29 [ref. 28536], Bray et al. 2006:1774 [ref. 29091], Gomon 2008:786 [ref. 30616], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:70 [ref. 36649], Mecklenburg et al. 2011:131 [ref. 31212], Parin et al. 2014:513 [ref. 33547], Roberts 2015:1633 [ref. 34193], Abdussamad et al. 2016:1 [ref. 34790], Motomura et al. 2017:214 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:363 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:171 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444]). Current status: Valid as Scomber Linnaeus 1758. Scombridae: Scombrinae.