THE FOOD AND GAME FISHES OF NEW YORK. 



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Young Swordfish have the skin covered with small, rough excrescences, the jaws 

 much more nearly equal, and the dorsal and anal fins not divided into two separate 

 parts. 



90. Yellow Mackerel (Caranx hippos Linneeus). 



Scomber hippos LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed., XII, I, 494, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina. 

 Caranx carangus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 91, 1833 ; GUNTHER, 



Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 448, 1860. 

 Caranx defensor DE!VAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 120, pi. 24, fig. 72, 1842 ; HOLBROOK, 



Ichth. S. C., 87, pi. 12, fig. r, 1860. 

 Carangus hippos GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 433, 1862 ; GOODE & BEAN, Bull. 



Essex Inst., XI, 16, 1879. 

 Caranx hippies JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 437, 1883 ; Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 200, 1883. 

 Caranx hippos BEAN, Bull. U.S. F. C, VII, 139, 1888; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 



362, 1897 ; 52d Ann. Kept. N. Y. State Mus., 103, 1900; JORDAN & EVERMANN, 



Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 920, 1896, pi. CXLI, fig. 387, 1900 ; MEARNS, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., X, 318, 1898 ; SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C., XVII, 98, 1898. 



YELLOW MACKEREL. 



Body oblong, the anterior profile very strongly arched. The depth is contained 

 two and one-half times in the length. Head large and deep, its length being 

 contained three and one-half times in that of the body ; mouth large, low ; lower 

 jaw prominent, maxillary extending to nearly opposite posterior border of eye, two 

 and one-third in head ; teeth in upper jaw in a broad villiform band, an outer 

 series of large, wide-set, conical teeth, teeth of lower jaw in one row, a distinct 

 canine on each side of symphysis ; villiform teeth on vomer, palatines, pterygoids, 

 and tongue ; lateral line with a wide arch, its length one and one-third in straight 

 part, the angle under fifth dorsal ray, plates not covering all of the straight part, 



