cavalla, Cybium Cuvier [G.] 1829:200 [Le Règne Animal (Edition 2) v. 2; ref. 995] Brazil. No types known. Type catalog: Collette 1966:365 [ref. 14641]. Available from footnote as, "C. cavalla, ou Guarapuca, Margr., 173." Spelled caballa in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831 [ref. 1000]. •Valid as Scomberomorus cavalla (Cuvier 1829) -- (Collette & Nauen 1983:58 [ref. 5375], Fujii in Uyeno et al. 1983:418 [ref. 14275], Collette & Russo 1985:616 [ref. 5221], Robins & Ray 1986:259 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:455 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:179 [ref. 14674], Boschung 1992:169 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:417 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1994:252 [ref. 24488], Murdy et al. 1997:181 [ref. 23144], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:332 [ref. 25013], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25629], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1645 [ref. 25634], Rocha & Rosa 2001:992 [ref. 25909], Camargo & Isaac 2001:143 [ref. 27639], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:529 [ref. 26158], Alvarez-León 2002:228 [ref. 26373], Collette 2003:1850 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:10 [ref. 27312], Smith et al. 2003:67 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:781 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:182 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:83 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:32 [ref. 34324], Spier et al. 2018:16 [ref. 36103], Collette & Graves 2019:151 [ref. 37341], Robertson et al. 2020:161 [ref. 38098], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:440 [ref. 38945], Zeng et al. 2022:160 [ref. 40510], Carvalho-Filho 2023:252 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Scomberomorus cavalla (Cuvier 1829). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (U.S.A.) south to Santa Catarina (Brazil), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Habitat: marine.