commerson, Scomber Lacepède [B. G. E.] (ex Commerson) 1800:598, 600, Pl. 20 (fig. 1) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 2; ref. 2709] No locality stated. No types known. Type catalog: Bauchot & Blanc 1961 [ref. 20733] and Blanc & Bauchot 1964:444, Figs. 4-7 [ref. 20804] as "neosyntypes"; Collette 1966:369 [ref. 14641] recognized that they were not types. Based on a Commerson drawing. Also appeared in Sonnini 1803:283, 287 (vol. 7) [ref. 30473]. As Scomber commersoni in Bloch & Schneider 1801:545 [ref. 471], Scomber commersonii in Shaw 1803:589, and Cybium commersonii in Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831. •Valid as Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepède 1800) -- (Postel 1973:473 [ref. 7208], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:286 [ref. 7348] as commersoni, Kyushin et al. 1977:316 [ref. 19756] as commersoni, Collette & Russo 1980:249 [ref. 8727], Kyushin et al. 1982:248 [ref. 19754], Collette & Nauen 1983:63 [ref. 5375], Collette & Russo 1985:622 [ref. 5221], Dor 1984:264 [ref. 29757], Nakamura in Masuda et al. 1984:225 [ref. 6441], Collette in Whitehead et al. 1986:992 [ref. 13676], Collette 1986:836 [ref. 5647], Allen & Swainston 1988:144 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:65 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:448 [ref. 15987], Gomon et al. 1994:825 [ref. 22532], Goren & Dor 1994:70 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:375 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:515 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:232 [ref. 23977], Carpenter et al. 1997:225 [ref. 23922], Chen et al. 1997:159 [ref. 26476] as commersoni, Randall et al. 1997:448 [ref. 25919], Golani 1998:97 [ref. 27567], Myers 1999:278 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:565 [ref. 24106], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:252 [ref. 24754], Johnson 1999:751 [ref. 25471], Collette in Randall & Lim 2000:643 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1351 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:447 [ref. 25191], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:104 [ref. 26368], Collette 2001:3743 [ref. 26305] dated 1801, Collette et al. 2001:2 [ref. 25629], Hutchins 2001:45 [ref. 25847], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:145 [ref. 26753], Nakabo 2002:1351 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:418, 674 [ref. 26218], Allen & Adrim 2003:63 [ref. 26830], Collette 2003:10 [ref. 27312], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S121 [ref. 27377], Matsuura et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:212 [ref. 27510] dated 1801, Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:419 [ref. 28072], Randall et al. 2004:30 [ref. 27624], Golani 2005:61 [ref. 37112], Randall 2005:611 [ref. 28239], Bray et al. 2006:1775 [ref. 29091], Fricke et al. 2007:111 [ref. 29533], Gomon 2008:787 [ref. 30616], Fricke et al. 2009:112 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:312 [ref. 30426], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1041 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:218 [ref. 32988], Yoshida et al. 2013:204 [ref. 34464], Bogorodsky et al. 2014:430 [ref. 33460], Fricke et al. 2014:188 [ref. 33932], Psomadakis et al. 2015:316 [ref. 34104], Collette in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2915 [ref. 34618], Koeda et al. 2016:106 [ref. 35333], Motomura et al. 2017:215 [ref. 35490], Ali et al. 2018:341 [ref. 36183], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[22] 260 [ref. 36492], Fricke et al. 2018:363 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:171 [ref. 36273], Kimura in Kimura et al. 2018:278 [ref. 36460], Brown et al. 2019:173 [ref. 36444], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36864], Eagderi et al. 2019:104 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:312 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:160 [ref. 36626], Zajonz et al. 2019:100 [ref. 36871], Collette & Graves 2019:157 [ref. 37341], Bariche & Fricke 2020:137 [ref. 37515], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 18 [ref. 38321], Kim et al. 2020:183 [ref. 39118], Psomadakis et al. 2020:573 [ref. 37272], Golani 2021:83 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:35 [ref. 39014], Taki et al. 2021:399 [ref. 39830], Collette 2022:283 [ref. 40167], Zajonz et al. 2022:251 [ref. 40522], Zeng et al. 2022:160 [ref. 40510], Ishikuro & Mizawa 2023:11 [ref. 40845], Vilasri et al. 2023:95 [ref. 40764]). Current status: Valid as Scomberomorus commerson (Lacepède 1800). Scombridae: Scombrinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: Western Cape, eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Palau and Fiji, north to Korea and Aomori Prefecture (northern Japan), south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Zealand; southern central Atlantic: Saint Helena Island; Mediterranean Sea (Red Sea immigrant). Habitat: marine.