i 9 4i CATALOGUE OF FISHES OF TORTUGAS 8 1 



Trachinotus palometa Regan 



Chaetodon glaucus Bloch, Naturgesch. ausland. Fische, vol. 3, 1787, p. 112, pi. 210 — 

 Martinique (on a drawing by Plumier). 



Trachynotus palometa Regan, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 12, 1903, p. 349 (sub- 

 stitute for C. glaucus Bloch, regarded as preoccupied). 



Sometimes appears in large schools about the Laboratory and lighthouse 

 docks, and in smaller numbers about beach rocks east of the Laboratory. 



Lobes of soft dorsal and anal elongated and black, as are lobes of caudal; four 

 narrow vertical dark bars on side. 



The stomach of one specimen, 175 mm. long, was filled with annelid frag- 

 ments, and one ]en\insia lamprotaenia. W. H. L. 



Gudger (Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 391, 1929, p. 165) described a specimen 

 122 mm. long from Tortugas, giving the fin-ray formulas D. I-VI-1,19; A. II-L.17. 

 Depth in standard length 2.2. Longley's and Gudger's specimens had only four 

 dark crossbars, though five sometimes are present. 



This pompano is more elongate than Trachinotus falcatits (depth generally 

 more than 2 in standard length) ; the anterior lobes of the soft dorsal and anal 

 are higher, sometimes reaching nearly to tips of caudal in adults; and it differs 

 in color, having dark vertical bars on the side. 



Caribbean Sea and northward to Virginia. S. F. H. 



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Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus) 



Dr. Longley did not list this pompano in his notes. It is included in the fauna 

 of Tortugas on the basis of a record by Jordan and Thompson (Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fish., vol. 24, 1904 (1905), p. 238), who stated that it was rather common. 

 Schroeder (Rept. U. S. Comm. Fish., app. 12, 1923 (1924), p. 12), reporting on 

 the commercial fishes of Key West, said that it is taken there in small numbers 

 during the winter. Dr. Longley may not have found it at Tortugas because his 

 work was confined to summer. 



This pompano is recognized by the rather numerous dorsal and anal rays (D. 

 V or VI-I,22 to 25; A. 11-1,20 to 23); by the low anterior lobes of the dorsal and 

 anal; and by the plain color, which in adults is bluish green above, shading into 

 the silvery on the belly, without crossbars. 



On the coast of tropical America, sometimes as far north as Cape Cod. 



S.F.H. 



Trachinotus goodei Jordan and Evermann. Permit 



This pompano seems to be mentioned only once in Dr. Longley's notes: "A 

 large carangid of the sort in which I have lost grains. ... It is the 'permit,' 

 T. goodei." This fish was seen off Long Key while diving, and also south of 

 Long Key. 



Aside from the large size attained, this pompano is recognized by the rather 

 elongate body (depth about 2.5 in standard length) ; by the short dorsal and anal 

 fins (D. VI-L19; A. H-1,17), with anterior lobes only moderately elevated, not 



