430 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Subgenus PARATRACTLS Gill 

 215 Caranx crysos (^litchill) 



Yellow Mackerel 



Scomber crysos MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 424, 1815, New 



York. 

 Caranx pisquetus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IX, 97, 1833, 



San Domingo, Cuba, and Brazil; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 1G, U. S. 



Nat. Mus. 435, 1S83. 

 Paratractus pisquetiis GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 432, 1S62; GOODE 



& BEAN, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 16, 1879. 

 Caranx clirysos STOKER, Hist. Fish. Mass. 75, pi. XIV, fig. 3, 1867; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 445, 1SGO. 

 Caranx chrysus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Net. Mus. 970, 1883; 



BEAN, 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 256, pi. VII, fig. 10, 1890. 

 Caranx crysos DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 121, pi. 27, fig. 85, 1842; 



JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 921, 1896, pi. CXLII, 



fig. 388, 1900; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 362, 1897; SMITH, 



Bull. U. S. F. C. XVII, 98, 1898. 



Body oblong, moderately elevated, the dorsal and ventral 

 outlines about equally arched. The depth of the body is con- 

 tained about three and one fourth times in the length. Profile 

 forming a uniform -curve. The length of the head is contained 

 three and three fourths times in the length of the body. Snout 

 rather sharp; mouth slightly oblique, a little below axis of 

 body; maxillary reaching about to middle of orbit; teeth 

 comparatively large, a single series in lower jaw, upper jaw 

 with an inner series of smaller teeth, no canines, teeth on 

 vomer, palatines and tongue; eye rather small, shorter than 

 snout, three and one half in head; gill rakers long and numer- 

 ous; pectoral as long as head, barely reaching anal, rarely 

 longer than head in certain specimens from Key West, possibly 

 referable to C. cabal 1 us; scales moderate; cheeks and 

 breast scaly; lateral line with a weak arch anteriorly, which is 

 about half the length of straight portion, lateral scutes numer- 

 ous, developed on whole straight part of lateral line, lateral 

 line 50 (scutes). D. VIII-I, 24; A. II-I, 19. 



Greenish olive, golden yellow or silvery below; a black blotch 

 on opercle; fins all pale. An individual 3^ inches long, taken 



