However, considering that the term of whale is used for indicating every type of whales belonging to Cetacea biologically, it can be said that the situation would be near to handling tunas and mackerels equally as "fishes of scombroidei."
しかしながら、クジラが生物学的にはクジラ目に属する多くの種の総称であることを考えると、マグロもサバも同じ『サバ亜目の魚』として同一に扱うのに近いと言える。