BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



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Vomer setipinnis (Mitchill). Moonfish, horse fish, 

 dollar- fish. (Goode records the picturesque 

 vernacular name "humpbacked butterfish".) 

 Cope, 1870 (Vomer curtus); Baird, 1873; Goode 

 18843, p. 322, (Selene setipinnis); Jordan and 

 Evermann, 1896, p. 934; H. M. Smith, 1898, 

 p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 82. 



Woods Hole. Goode. Newport. Cope. Buz- 

 zards Bay, Vineyard Sound; rare to common, 

 appearing during August and remaining during 

 September. Smith. Taken in traps. 



Selene vomcr (Linnaeus). Moonfish, lookdown, dol- 

 lar-fish. 



Storer, 1867, p. 78 (A rgyreiosus capillaris); Goode, 

 18843, p. 323 (Selene argentea); Jordan and 

 Evermann, 1896, p. 936; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 

 98; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 508; Kendall, 

 1908, p. 82. 



Woods Hole. Goode. Buzzards Bay, Tisbury 

 Pond. Edwards. Nantucket. Sharp and 

 Fowler. Not common. Taken during Sep- 

 tember and October. Traps and seines. 



Trachinotus fakatus (Linnaeus). Round pompano. 



Storer, 1867, p. 280 (Trachinotus ovatus); Baird, 

 i&j 3, (Trachinotus ovatus); Goode, 18843, p. 329 

 (Trachinotus ovatus); Jordan and Evermann, 

 1896, p. 941; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 98; Ken- 

 dall, 1908, p. 83. 



Vineyard Haven.- Goode. Katama Bay, Lack- 

 eys Bay, Great Tisbury Pond, Great Harbor, 

 Quisset Harbor, Nobska Beach. Edwards. 

 The young are very common some years (e.g., 

 1908); no adults taken. Recorded from July 

 to October 18. Edwards. Taken by seine. 



Trachinotus goodei Jordan & Evermann. Permit, 



black-finned pompano. 

 Jordan and Evermann, 1896, p. 943; H. M. 



Smith, 1898, p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 83. 

 Nobska Beach and other places. Edwards. 



Rare; not observed every year; recorded in 



September, 1894 and 1897; only young taken. 



Smith. Caught by seine. 



Trachinotus argenteus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Silvery pompano. 

 Jordan and Evermann, 1896, p. 944; H. M. 



Smith, 1898, p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 84. 

 One taken by seine at Nobska Beach September 



7, 1885. Baird, cited by Smith. 



Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus). Common pom- 

 pano. 



Baird, 1873; Goode, 18843, p. 327; Jordan and 

 Evermann, 1896, p. 944; H. M. Smith, 1898, 

 p. 98; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 509; Ken- 

 dall, 1908, p. 84. 



Trachinotus carolinus Continued. 

 Woods Hole as early as 1863. Baird, cited by 

 Goode. Nobska Beach, West Falmouth. 

 Edwards. Nantucket. Sharp and Fowler. 

 Young common; adults not observed for 10 

 years. Smith. Present from latter part of 

 July till end of September. Smith. Taken 

 with seine. 



Family POMATOMID^. 



Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus). Bluefish. 



Storer, 1867, p. 82 (Temnodon saltalor); Baird, 

 in first report United States Fish Commissioner, 

 p. xxm ; Baird, 1873; Verrill and Smith, 1873, 

 p. 516; Bean, 1884; Goode, 18843, p. 433; 

 Jordsn and Evermann, 1896, p. 946; H. M. 

 Smith, 1898, p. 98; Linton, 1901; Sherwood, 

 and Edwsrds, 1901; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, 

 p. 509; Kendall, 1908, p. 84. 



Common throughout the region. They first 

 appear in Vineyard Sound from the middle of 

 May to the first week in June. Goode. Most 

 numerous in July and October. Edwards. 

 Mr. G. H. Sherwood reports that on July 12, 

 1901, over 200 were taken from the United 

 States Fish Commission "Bay trap" (near 

 Woods Hole station), and that a school 4 or 5 

 miles long and over a mile wide was noted in 

 Nsrragansett Bsy, remaining for about 10 days. 

 In 1908, reported as more common in Vine- 

 yard Sound than for many years. 



A few have well-developed spawn on arrival. 

 Smith. Young i% inches long; ordinarily 

 first seen in July, though noted as early as May 

 29, in 1903. Edwards. 



Food: Some taken in August contained Loligo 

 pealii and various fishes. Verrill and Smith. 

 Fish (hake, herring, scup, cunner), and squid; 

 in younger individuals smaller fish, as a rule, 

 but shrimps and amphipods were also found. 

 Linton. 



Parasites: Acanthocephala (Linton) Echinor- 

 hynchus lateralis, E. proteus, E. sagiltifer. 

 Nematodes (Linton) Ichihyonema globiceps, 

 immature nematodes. Cestodes (Linton) 

 Dibothrium crassiceps, Otobothrium dipsacum, 

 Rhynchobothrium bulbifer (cysts), R. speciosum 

 (cysts), Scolex polymorphus (larvae), Synboth- 

 rium filicolle (cysts), Tetrarhynchus bisukatus 

 (cysts), T. erinaccus (cysts). Trematodes 

 (Linton) Distomum monticellii, D. ocreatum, 

 D. -vitellosum, D. sp., Microcotyk pomatomi, 

 M. sp. Copepods (C. B. Wilson) Caligus 

 schistonyx, Lcrnanthropus pomatomi. 



For growth of young and other notes of interest, 

 see Sherwood and Edwards, 1901. 



