75. CARANGID2E CARANX. 437 



vex. Mouth very small, oblique, the maxillary scarcely reaching the 

 middle of the orbit. Head small, short, about as deep as long. Eye 

 large, as long as snout, 3 in head. Gill-rakers shortish, rather strong, 

 20 below arch; anal spines small, the second longest; upper lobe of the 

 caudal falcate, more than a third longer than the lower. Lateral scutes 

 numerous, very strong. Teeth rather strong, in one series in each jaw ; 

 teeth on tongue few or none; those on vomer and palatines minute, 

 deciduous ; scales small ; cheeks niked, breast scaly ; lateral line strongly 

 arched, the arch about one-third the straight portion ; scaly sheaths of 

 dorsal and anal very high, extending the whole length of fin. Pectoral 

 falcate longer than head, reaching anal. Head 4^; depth 2 J. D. 

 VII-I, 28; A. II-I, 25; Lat. 1. (scutes) about 50. West Indies north- 

 ward; not common. 



(Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 1860, 94 : Caranx amblyrhynchus Guiither, ii, 441, pt. not 

 of C. & V.: Carangops falcatus Gill, Proc. Acacl. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 431.) 



aa. Teeth unequal ; lower jaw with small canines. (Carangus * Grd.) 



69O. C. fallax C. & V. 



Bluish, sides golden or silvery, a very small, black opercular spot. 

 Form of C. Mppus, but the profile not so strongly arched. Teeth as in 

 C. liippm. Breast entirely scaly ; anterior part of soft dorsal fin black; 

 no spot on the pectorals. Scutes present on whole of straight part of 

 lateral line; arched part of lateral line If in straight part; an abrupt 

 angle at junction of the two parts. Pectoral shorter than head, max- 

 illary reaching posterior edge of pupil ; cheek and upper parts of opercles 

 scaly; scaly sheaths of fins little developed. Head3f; depth 2|. D. 

 VIII-I, 22; A. II-I, 1C; Lat. 1. 35 (scutes). Warm seas, north to South 

 Carolina ; not common. 



(Cuv. & Val. is, 95 : Caranx hippos Giinther, ii, 449 : Caranx ricliardi Holbr. Ichth. 

 S. C. 1860, 96.) 



69 1 C. hippus (L.) Giiuther. CrevalU; Horse Crevalle. 



Olivaceous above ; sides and below silvery or golden ; a distinct black 

 blotch on opercle and one on lower rays of pectorals, the latter some- 

 times wanting ; axil of pectoral dusky ; anterior edge of dorsals black ; 

 upper edge of caudal peduncle dusky. Body oblong, the anterior pro- 

 file very strongly arched. Head large and deep. Mouth large, low, and 

 nearly horizontal below axis of body ; lower jaw included ; maxillary 

 extending to nearly opposite posterior border of eye. Teeth in upper 



* Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv. Ichth. 1829, 23; type Scomber carang us Bloch; name 

 a modification of Caranx. 



