scombroides, Sairis Richardson [J.] 1843:26 [Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science v. 12 (12th meeting [1842]); ref. 12502] Dusky Bay, New Zealand. No types known. Based on Solander manuscript and various illustrations; authorship regarded as Richardson. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:115 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Original genus should have been Sayris. •Synonym of Scomberesox saurus (Walbaum 1792) -- (Parin 1973:261 [ref. 7191]). •Synonym of Scomberesox saurus (Walbaum 1792), but a valid subspecies scombroides (Richardson 1843) -- (Hubbs & Wisner 1980:535 [ref. 2267], Parin in Whitehead et al. 1986:611 [ref. 13676], Pequeño 1989:50 [ref. 14125], Wisner 1990:601 [ref. 16638], Smith 1986:388 [ref. 5712], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:147 [ref. 25472], Andrew et al. 1995:15 [ref. 38009] as scomberoides, Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:104, 391 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:115 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:168 [ref. 25013], Collette 2004:3-4 [ref. 27582], Collette 2016:2130 [ref. 34601], Nión et al. 2016:42 [ref. 35565] dated 1842). •Valid as Scomberesox scombroides (Richardson 1843) -- (Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:67 [ref. 27192], Heemstra 2022:381 [ref. 39704], Carvalho-Filho 2023:91 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Scomberesox scombroides (Richardson 1843). Scomberesocidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in Southern Hemisphere. Habitat: marine.