rochei, Scomber Risso [A.] 1810:165 [Ichthyologie de Nice; ref. 3755] Nice, France, northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Holotype: MNHN A-5808. Motomura et al. 2010:230 [ref. 31256] Spelled rocheanus in Risso 1827:417 [ref. 3757]. Two subspecies: rochei and eudorax. •Valid as Auxis rochei (Risso 1810), subspecies rochei (Risso 1810) -- (Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Collette 2001:3729 [ref. 26305], Collette et al. 2001:3 [ref. 25629], Collette in Collette & Klein-MacPhee 2002:517 [ref. 26158], Collette 2003:1843 [ref. 27087], Collette 2003:2-3 [ref. 27312], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Parin 2003:S28 [ref. 28536], Love et al. 2005:167 [ref. 37547], Golani 2005:60 [ref. 37112], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:775 [ref. 28815], Mundy 2005:504 [ref. 28379], Randall 2007:447 [ref. 30952], Gomon 2008:783 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:111 [ref. 30213], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:69 [ref. 36649], Motomura et al. 2010:230 [ref. 31256], Page et al. 2013:181 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:134 [ref. 32972], Wirtz et al. 2014:10 [ref. 33516], Parin et al. 2014:511 [ref. 33547], Roberts 2015:1628 [ref. 34193], Motomura et al. 2017:211 [ref. 35490], Matsunuma in Kimura et al. 2018:275 [ref. 36460], Collette 2022:274 [ref. 40167], Fermon et al. 2022:212 [ref. 39448]). •Valid as Auxis rochei (Risso 1810) -- (Postel 1973:470 [ref. 7208], Collette & Nauen 1983:29 [ref. 5375], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:271 [ref. 9277], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:225 [ref. 6441], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:984 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:833 [ref. 5647], Robins & Ray 1986:261 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:144 [ref. 25477], Scott & Scott 1988:448 [ref. 25518], McAllister 1990:179 [ref. 14674], Randall et al. 1990:443 [ref. 15987], Collette 1990:979 [ref. 19476], Boschung 1992:168 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:415 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1994:242 [ref. 24488], Allen & Robertson 1994:277 [ref. 22193], Collette in Fischer et al. 1995:1529 [ref. 22830], Randall 1995:372 [ref. 22896], Collette & Aadland 1996:435 [ref. 22199], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:499 [ref. 27969], Santos et al. 1997:106 [ref. 23531], Pequeño 1997:84 [ref. 23536], Allen 1997:232 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:223 [ref. 23922], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:271 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:581 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:99 [ref. 24952], Randall et al. 1997:443 [ref. 25919], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:396 [ref. 24555], Fricke 1999:563 [ref. 24106], Nakabo 2000:1347 [ref. 25182], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:169 [ref. 27754], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:141 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:1347 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 672 [ref. 26218], Menezes in Menezes et al. 2003:102 [ref. 27192], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:210 [ref. 27510], Nelson et al. 2004:176 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:416 [ref. 28072], Bray et al. 2006:1769 [ref. 29091], Fricke 2007:27 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:110 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:179 [ref. 30517], Larson et al. 2013:217 [ref. 32988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:313 [ref. 34104], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2902 [ref. 34618], Nión et al. 2016:53 [ref. 35565], Kells et al. 2016:314 [ref. 35888], Ali et al. 2018:340 [ref. 36183], Martins & Carneiro 2018:60 [ref. 36550], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Burton & Lea 2019:92 [ref. 37205], Carneiro et al. 2019:166 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Eagderi et al. 2019:103 [ref. 37020], Reiner 2019:277 [ref. 38139], Zajonz et al. 2019:108 [ref. 36871] as cf. rochei, Collette & Graves 2019:34 [ref. 37341], Bariche & Fricke 2020:82 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 18 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:181 [ref. 39118], Kovačić et al. 2020:22 [ref. 37519], Psomadakis et al. 2020:569 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:112 [ref. 37637], Bañón & Maño 2021:94 [ref. 38887], Golani 2021:82 [ref. 38303], Kim et al. 2021:214 [ref. 39117], Kovačić et al. 2021:35 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:211 [ref. 39279], Carvalho-Filho 2023:249 [ref. 40480], Ceríaco et al. 2023:47 [ref. 40710], Siccha-Ramirez et al. 2023:263 [ref. 40816]). Current status: Valid as Auxis rochei (Risso 1810). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico), but not in eastern Pacific (there replaced by A. eudorax Collette & Aadland 1996). Habitat: brackish, marine.