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Nomenclature Table

RFE LinkFDA - SL Market Name
FDA - SL Common Name
FDA - SL Scientific Name
RFE 2 Letter Code
RFE 8 Letter Code		FDA - SL Vernacular NamesAFS Common Name
AFS Scientific Name
AFS Other Names
AFS Synonyms		FAO Scientific Name
FAO Species Code
FAO Common Name English
FAO Common Name French
FAO Common Name Spanish		FAO Synonyms






Pacific BonitoFDA-SL Market Name: Bonito
FDA-SL Common Name: Pacific Bonito
FDA-SL Sci. Name: Sarda chiliensis
FDA RFE WWW 2 Letter code: sb
FDA RFE 8 Letter code: sardchil		Vernac. 1) California Bonito
Vernac. 2) Skipjack







AFS Common Name: Pacific Bonito
AFS Sci. Name: Sarda chiliensis (Cuvier, 1832)
AFS Other Names:   N.A.

AFS Synonyms:   N.A.		FAO Sci. Name: Sarda chiliensis (Cuvier, 1831)
FAO Species Code: SCOMBR Sarda 3
FAO Common English: Eastern Pacific Bonito
FAO Common French: Bonite du Pacifique oriental
FAO Common Spanish: Bonito del Pacifico oriental		FAO Sci. Name with Ref.: Pelamys chiliensis Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1831,
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, 8:16 (Valparaiso, Chile).

FAO Synonyms: Pelamys lineolata Girard, 1859;
Pelamys chilensis - Günther, 1860
Sarda chilensis - Jordan & Gilbert, 1882;
Sarda chiliensis - Walford, 1936;
Sarda lineolata - Walford, 1936;
Sarda stockii David, 1943;
Sarda sarda chiliensis - De Buen, 1958;
Sarda chilensis chilensis - Vildosa, 1963;
Sarda chilensis lineolata - Vildosa, 1963;
Sarda sarda chilensis - Sanchez & Lam, 1970;
Sarda chiliensis chiliensis Kuo, 1970;
Sarda chiliensis lineolata - Kuo, 1970.

Geographic Distribution Table

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Fish ImagePacific Bonito
Sarda chiliensis
Bonito		PRestricted to the eastern Pacific Ocean (Collette & Chao, 1975:fig. 70). Its geographical range includes a northern and a southern subspecies separated by a tropical population of S. orientalis. The southern subspecies, S. chiliensis chiliensis, occurs from Mancora, Peru, just south of the Gulf of Guayaquil southward to Talcahuano, Chile. The northern subspecies, S. chiliensis lineolata (Girard) occurs from off the coast of Alaska (60°16'N, 145°32'W) southward to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja California (22°20'N, 112°27'W) and in the Revillagigedo Islands.
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