australasicus, Scomber Cuvier [G.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1832:49 [Histoire naturelle des poissons; ref. 1000] King George Sound, Western Australia, southeastern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-5312 (poor condition). Type catalog: Bauchot & Blanc 1961:373 [ref. 20733], Blanc & Bauchot 1964:450, Fig. 23 [ref. 20804], Collette 1966:364 [ref. 14641]. •Valid as Scomber australasicus Cuvier 1832 -- (Kyushin et al. 1982:246 [ref. 19754], Shirai in Amaoka et al. 1983:131, 204 [ref. 8379], Collette & Nauen 1983:55 [ref. 5375], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:224 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura et al. 1985:543, 705 [ref. 8056], Paulin et al. 1989:229 [ref. 24556], Kuiter 1993:377 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:167 [ref. 25479], Gomon et al. 1994:824 [ref. 22532], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:1535 [ref. 22830], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:514 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:225 [ref. 23922], Baker & Collette 1998:29 [ref. 23350], Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1347 [ref. 25182], Collette 2001:3741 [ref. 26305] dated 1831, Collette et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25629], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1347 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 673 [ref. 26218], Collette 2003:8 [ref. 27312], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Parin 2003:S29 [ref. 28536], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Savinykh et al. 2004:658 [ref. 27937], Mundy 2005:506 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:450 [ref. 30952], Gomon 2008:786 [ref. 30616], Motomura et al. 2010:230 [ref. 31256], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Larson et al. 2013:218 [ref. 32988], Parin et al. 2014:513 [ref. 33547], Psomadakis et al. 2015:315 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:1633 [ref. 34193], Fourriére et al. 2016:459 [ref. 34668], Abdussamad et al. 2016:6 [ref. 34790], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Motomura et al. 2017:214 [ref. 35490], Golani & Fricke 2018:171 [ref. 36273], Matsuo & Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:277 [ref. 36460], Eagderi et al. 2019:104 [ref. 37020], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36871], Collette & Graves 2019:121 [ref. 37341], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 18 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:183 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:113 [ref. 37637], Kim et al. 2021:216 [ref. 39117], Collette 2022:281 [ref. 40167], Dewa et al. 2022:30 [ref. 40001], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:269 [ref. 41223], Zajonz et al. 2022:250 [ref. 40522], Page et al. 2023:114 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Scomber australasicus Cuvier 1832. Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: Socotra (Yemen), Persian Gulf; northern Vietnam, Korea, Japan and Kuril Islands east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia) and New Zealand; Eastern Pacific: Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico). Habitat: marine.