Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Review of the Giant Mackerel-Like Fishes, Tunnies, Spearfishes and Swordfishes
Knowledge of the giant fishes, Swordfishes and Tunnies, te lated to the Scombridae or Mackerel family, has been very chaotic so far as the species are concerned. All these fishes, ranging in weight when adult, from 20 to 1400 pounds, are far too large to be preserved in spirits or cared for in ma scums. For this reason they are usually represented in ma scums only by a few mounted skins and nasal swords. The types of most of the species have been largely drawings of various degrees of excellence, or badness. For several of these it has been impossible to find out, with exactness, the species for which certain names were intended.
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