102 (ff). LATILID^E CAULOLATILUS. 625 



386. CAin,OL,ATIL,US Gill. 



Blanquillos. 



(Dekaya* Cooper; preoccupied.) 



(Caulolatilus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862,240; nomen iinflnni, defined. in Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 18^55, 66: type Latihis chrysops C. & Y.) 



Body elongate, subfusiforin, not strongly compressed, heavy forward, 

 tapering to a rather slender caudal peduncle. Profile of head strongly 

 arched. Mouth moderate, little oblique, the jaws nearly equal; lips 

 thick; maxillary narrow, not slipping under preorbital; teeth in villi- 

 form bands, preceded by a row of stronger acute teeth; hindmost teeth 

 in each jaw canine-like, directed forward; posterior canines of upper 

 jaw largest; no teeth on vomer or palatines; preopercle pectinate, the 

 teeth nearly even; opercle with a blunt, flat spine. Eyes large, lateral. 

 Gill-membranes slightly connected, forming a fold across the isthmus, 

 with which they are narrowly joined. Branchioslegals 6. Gill-rakers 

 short and stout. Nostrils double, round, close together. Scales small, 

 firm, ctenoid. Lateral line continuous, concurrent with the back. Dor- 

 sal with 7-9 slender, pointed, graduated spines, and 22-27 soft rays ; 

 anal similar to soft dorsal, with 1 or 2 small spines, and more than 20 

 soft rays; caudal fin forked; ventral fins ihoracic; no adipose append- 

 age at the nape. Large fishes of the warm seas. (-/.auXoq^ stem ; Latllus 

 /. c., many-rayed Latilus.) 



913 C. prince p (Jenyns) Gill. jniite-fsh; Yellow-tail. 



Olivaceous, with bluish reflections; brownish above, greenish below; 

 fins light greenish olive, tinged with bluish and orange, the colors 

 always pale; dorsal and anal greenish, with a bluish band near the 

 tip; axil dusky. Flesh of the occiput becoming thick with age,, as in 

 Harpe. Eye large, about half the convex interorbital space, 4J in head. 

 Maxillaries reaching front of eye. Teeth rather strong. Preopercle 

 finely, evenly, and acutely serrate behind, nearly entire below; pre- 

 opercle, interopercle, and preorbital naked; cheeks and opercles scaly; 

 top of head scaled on the median line to between the eyes. Dorsal 

 spines flexible; ventrals slightly behind the pectorals, the outer rays 

 longest; caudal moderately forked, the upper lobe the longer; caudal 

 peduncle short and slender, abruptly contracted; pectorals falcate, 

 longer than caudaj, | length of the head. Head 3; depth 4. D. IX- 



* Dekaya Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 18G4, 711: type Dekaya ariomala Cooper; 

 not Dekayia Millie-Edwards & Haime, 1851 ; a genus of corals. 



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