sarda, Scomber Bloch [M. E.] 1793:44, Pl. 334 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 7; ref. 4868] Europe. Lectotype: whereabouts unknown. Lectotype selected by Fricke 1999:48 [ref. 24101] as [the specimen illustrated in] Pl. 334 in the original description [specimen not in existence]. On p. 35 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 10 [ref. 21381]. •Valid as Sarda sarda (Bloch 1793) -- (Postel 1973:475 [ref. 7208], Collette & Chao 1975:604 [ref. 5573], Collette & Nauen 1983:53 [ref. 5375], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:989 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:835 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:260 [ref. 23100], Scott & Scott 1988:451 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:179 [ref. 14674], Collette 1990:984 [ref. 19476], Boschung 1992:169 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:416 [ref. 23827], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:172 [ref. 25472], Cervigón 1994:246 [ref. 24488], Murdy et al. 1997:183 [ref. 23144], Santos et al. 1997:107 [ref. 23531], Arruda 1997:100 [ref. 24952], Aguilera 1998:53 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:331 [ref. 25013], Fricke 1999:48 [ref. 24101], Cousseau & Perrotta 2000:138 [ref. 25942], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:142 [ref. 26753], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:520 [ref. 26158], Collette 2003:1847 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:8 [ref. 27312], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:103 [ref. 27192], Parin 2003:S29 [ref. 28536], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:418 [ref. 28072], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Golani 2005:60 [ref. 37112], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:779 [ref. 28815], Vassilev & Pehlivanov 2005:181 [ref. 28369], Fricke et al. 2007:110 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:180 [ref. 30517], Fricke 2008:56 [ref. 30182], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:173 [ref. 31251] as sadra, Lipej & Dulčić 2010:70 [ref. 36649], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:134 [ref. 32972], Parin et al. 2014:512 [ref. 33547], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2907 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565], Martins & Carneiro 2018:64 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:560 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:167 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Collette & Graves 2019:116 [ref. 37341], Reiner 2019:279 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:83 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Abliazov et al. 2021:11 [ref. 38576], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:83 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:35 [ref. 39014], Rotundo et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:438 [ref. 38945], Collette 2022:280 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:213 [ref. 39448], Niță et al. 2022:101 [ref. 40471], Simian et al. 2022:376 [ref. 40776], Carvalho-Filho 2023:250 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Sarda sarda (Bloch 1793). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: Saint Pierre et Miquelon (France) and New Brunswick (Canada) south to Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; Black Sea; eastern Atlantic; southwestern Indian Ocean: Western Cape and Eastern Cape (South Africa). Habitat: brackish, marine.