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Fishery Bulletin 105(2) 



Body robust and compressed; head blunt — upper pro- 

 file strongly convex, lower profile only slightly curved 

 anteriorly; caudal peduncle slender. Breast naked ven- 

 trally to origin of pelvic fins, except for a small oval or 

 oblong patch of scales in front of pelvic fins (Fig. 4); lat- 

 erally, naked area sometimes extending slightly behind 

 pelvic fins as a narrow wedge and always separated 

 from naked base of pectoral fin by a narrow-to-broad 

 band of scales; maxilla, lacrimal and dorsum of head 

 naked; cheeks, preopercle, and opercle covered with 

 scales; bases of dorsal and anal fins have a narrow 

 scaly sheath anteriorly. Junction of curved and straight 

 parts of lateral line below segmented dorsal-fin rays 

 5-10 (9); length of curved lateral line 0.93-1.47 (0.97) 

 in straight lateral line. Dorsal fins well separated; first 

 spine of spinous dorsal fin very slender and closely ap- 

 plied to second spine, posterior 1-4 spines partially 

 or completely embedded in large adults; third spine 

 longest and much shorter than height of second dorsal- 

 fin lobe. Height of second dorsal-fin lobe 0.7-1.3 (1.2) 

 in head length; height of anal-fin lobe 0.7-1.3 (1.1) in 

 head length; heights of both fin lobes longer than head 

 in large adults (Figs. 6-7). Pectoral fin of adults long 

 and falcate, 0.8-0.9 (0.8) in head length. 



Upper jaw 2.2-2.3 (2.2) in head length, extending to 

 or slightly behind posterior margin of eye; eye diam- 

 eter 4.0-6.1 (4.3) in head length, and adipose eyelid 

 well-developed, especially posteriorly, in adults. Upper 

 jaw with an outer row of strong canines (widely spaced 

 in adults) and an inner band of small villiform teeth 

 that are widest anteriorly; lower jaw with a single row 

 of strong conical teeth that are smaller anteriorly and 

 one (occasionally two) pair of noticeably enlarged inner 

 symphyseal canines. Vomerine tooth patch triangu- 

 lar-shaped, without a median posterior extension, and 

 sparsely covered with small teeth. 



Measurements of 14 paratypes, 203-530 mm, and the 

 holotype as percentages of FL: snout to DIO 40.7-43.9 



350 



•g 300 

 £ 250 

 gi 200 - 



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t 150 



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Q 50 







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150 



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950 



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 300 

 250 

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 150 

 100 

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Fork length (mm) 



750 



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Figure 7 



Selected measurements versus fork length (FL) in mem- 

 bers of the crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) complex: (A) 

 dorsal-fin lobe height versus FL; (B) anal-fin lobe height 

 versus FL; IC) body depth (D20 to A20) versus FL, 



(41.6); snout to D20 55.7-59.8 (57.0); snout to P20 

 29.8-34.3 (30.2); snout to A20 55.5-60.2 (58.8); DIO to 

 P20 33.4-39.0 (35.5); D20 to A20 35.3-42.6 (40.2); D2 

 base 31.2-34.1 (32.2); A2 base 28.4-32.5 (28.7); curved 

 lateral-line length 27.6-36.0 (34.3); straight lateral-line 

 length 32.1-43.8 (33.3); height of dorsal-fin lobe 21.6-29.6 

 (25.3); height of anal-fin lobe 22.7-30.6 (26.8); pelvic-fin 

 length 13.6-15.7 (13.9); pectoral-fin length 33.7-38.7 



