SUBORDER SCAM BROIDEI
key to families
1a. Snout not produced into a spear
1a. Snout produced as a spear
2a. Scales moderately large covering the whole body; 5-6 detached fiblets... SCOMBRIDAE
2b. Scales absent, without corselet; 7-10 detached finlets.....CYBIIDAE
3a. Ventral fins absent...XIPHIIDAE
3b. Ventral fins with 2-3 rays, spear-like...HUSTIOPHORIDAE
family scombridae
There is a single genus found
Genus
1a. Hesd longer than high; depth 3.4-4.5
1b. Head as long as high; depth 3.8-3.4
2a. Depth 3.4-3.8; gill rakers 33-37
2b. Depth 4.5-3.0; fill ragers 21-25
1a. Depth 2.8-3.4; gill rakers 29-34
family cybiidae
Key to genera
1a. Gill raker absent; gill laminae reticulated; 9.10 giblets; teeth triangular, slightly serrated
1b gill rakers present, short,and few in number; gill laminae no rmal; 4-10 finlets; teeth pointed, large, seldom serrated
Genus Acanthocybum
a single species known in our wator: A solandri(cuv.& Val).