pelamis, Scomber Linnaeus [C.] 1758:297 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Pelagic, between the tropics. No types known. Spelled pelamys in early literature. •Valid as Euthynnus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:272 [ref. 9277], Robins & Ray 1986:262 [ref. 23100]). •Valid as Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Postel 1973:471 [ref. 7208], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:279 [ref. 7348], Kyushin et al. 1977:310 [ref. 19756], Collette & Nauen 1983:42 [ref. 5375], Sheiko 1983:18 [ref. 37041], Dor 1984:262 [ref. 29757], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:226 [ref. 6441], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:986 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:834 [ref. 5647], Allen & Swainston 1988:142 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:450 [ref. 25518], Pequeño 1989:67 [ref. 14125], Paulin et al. 1989:230 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:65 [ref. 13251], McAllister 1990:179 [ref. 14674], Randall et al. 1990:443 [ref. 15987], Collette 1990:982 [ref. 19476], Boschung 1992:168 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:416 [ref. 23827], Kuiter 1993:378 [ref. 23929], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:172 [ref. 25472], Cervigón 1994:245 [ref. 24488], Gomon et al. 1994:822 [ref. 22532], Allen & Robertson 1994:277 [ref. 22193], Goren & Dor 1994:70 [ref. 25356], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:1532 [ref. 22830], Randall 1995:373 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:505 [ref. 27969], Santos et al. 1997:107 [ref. 23531], Allen 1997:230 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:161 [ref. 26476], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:584 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:100 [ref. 24952], Randall et al. 1997:443 [ref. 25919], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:397 [ref. 24555], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:14 [ref. 24670], Fricke 1999:564 [ref. 24106], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:331 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:80 [ref. 25466], Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471], Randall 1999:29 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:94 [ref. 37268], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1348 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:482 [ref. 25191], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Collette 2001:3736 [ref. 26305], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:142 [ref. 26753], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:519 [ref. 26158], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:807 [ref. 25968], Nakabo 2002:1348 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 673 [ref. 26218], Collette et al. 2003:125 [ref. 26784], Collette 2003:1846 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:5 [ref. 27312], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:648 [ref. 27495], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:102 [ref. 27192], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:211 [ref. 27510], Parin 2003:S28 [ref. 28536], Heemstra et al. 2004:3331 [ref. 27945], Lobel & Lobel 2004:77 [ref. 27576], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624], Golani 2005:60 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:167 [ref. 37547], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:778 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:505 [ref. 28379], Vaske et al. 2005:78 [ref. 36155], Bray et al. 2006:1773 [ref. 29091], Fricke et al. 2007:110 [ref. 29533], Wirtz et al. 2007:41 [ref. 30263], Fricke 2008:56 [ref. 30182], Gomon 2008:785 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:112 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:69 [ref. 36649], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:194 [ref. 30957], Motomura et al. 2010:230 [ref. 31256], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:134 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:218 [ref. 32988], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:83 [ref. 33341], Wirtz et al. 2014:11 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:512 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2014:187 [ref. 33932], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:118 [ref. 36167], Psomadakis et al. 2015:314 [ref. 34104], Roberts 2015:1631 [ref. 34193], Pinheiro et al. 2015:32 [ref. 34324], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2905 [ref. 34618], Fourriére et al. 2016:459 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:611 [ref. 34923], Koeda et al. 2016:106 [ref. 35333], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565], Kells et al. 2016:316 [ref. 35888], Motomura et al. 2017:212 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:362 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:170 [ref. 36273], Martins & Carneiro 2018:63 [ref. 36550], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:92 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:167 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Eagderi et al. 2019:104 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:311 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36871], Collette & Graves 2019:78 [ref. 37341], Reiner 2019:279 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:82 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 18 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:181 [ref. 39118], Moore et al. 2020:110 [ref. 37357], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:571 [ref. 37272], Robertson et al. 2020:161 [ref. 38098], Sonoyama et al. 2020:113 [ref. 37637], Akyol in Santín et al. 2021:213 [ref. 38223], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Dragičević & Dulčić in Tsagarakis et al. 2021:640 [ref. 38798], Eduardo et al. 2021:4 [ref. 38817], Golani 2021:83 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:35 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:211 [ref. 39279], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:437 [ref. 38945], Collette 2022:278 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:213 [ref. 39448], Grove et al. 2022:18 [ref. 41326], Zajonz et al. 2022:248 [ref. 40522], Carvalho-Filho 2023:250 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:113 [ref. 40505], Azzola et al. 2024:4 [ref. 40957]). Current status: Valid as Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus 1758). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, Sea of Japan, southern Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: marine.