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260 Roccus lineatus (Bloch) 

 Striped Bass; Rockftsh 



Sciaena lineata BLOCK, Ichthyol. IX, 53, pi. 305, 1792. 



Perca septentrionaUs BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth. 90, pi. 70, 1801, 



New York. 



Roccus striatus MITCHILL, Rep. Fisb. N. Y. 25, 1814. 

 Perca m it chilli MITCHILL, Titans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 413, pi. III,. 



fig. 4, 1815. 

 Perca mitchilli alternate, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 415. 



1815. 

 Perca mitchilli interntpta MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 415,. 



1815. 

 Labrax lineatus DE KAY, N. Y". Fauna, Fishes, 7, pi. 1, fig. 3, 1842; 



GUNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 64, 1859; STORER, Hist. Fish. Mass. 



6, pi. I, fig. 4, 1867. 

 Roccus lineatus GILL, Ichth. Rep. Capt. Simpson's Expl. Great Basin. Utah, 



391, 1876; GOODE, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 425, pi. 170, 18S4; BEAN, 



19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 267, pi. XVIII, fig. 22, 1890; Fishes 



Penna. 131, color pi. 14, 1893; Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 365. 1897; 



JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1132, 1896, pi. CLXXX, 



fig. 478, 1900; EUGENE SMITH, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y. 1897, 38, 1898; 



MEARNS, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. X, 321, 1898; H. M. SMITH, Bull. 



U. S. F. C. for 1897, 99, 1898; BEAN, 52d Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 



105, 1900. 



The genus Roccus, to which the striped bass belongs, has 

 two patches of small teeth on the base of the tongue, the anal 

 spines increasing regularly in size backward, the lower jaw 

 much longer than the upper, the scales on the cheeks nearly 

 smooth along their margin and the dorsal fins separated by a 

 narrow interspace. The body is moderately elongate and rather 

 stout; the caudal peduncle is slender. The greatest depth of 

 the body is two sevenths of the total length without caudal and 

 equals length of head. Eye small, one half as long as the snout 

 and one sixth to one eighth the length of the head. The eyes 

 are placed near the top of the head; the maxilla reaches to 

 below the middle of the eye. The anal spines are slender, the 

 third longest, about one fifth length of head. The fourth and 

 fifth dorsal spines are longest, about two fifths length of head* 

 Pectoral a little longer than ventral, one half length of head. 



D. IX, I, 11 to 12; A. Ill, 10 to 11. Scales 7-65-19. 



Sides greenish above, silvery below, sometimes with a brassy 

 lustre and marked by seven or eight, longitudinal streaks none of 



