62 TEMNODON SALTATOR. 



TEMNODON SALTATOR — LmncBus. 



Plate IX. Fig. 2. 



Specific Characters. Body oblong, compressed, silvery, shaded with bluish- 

 green above; a dusky spot at the root of the pectoral fin. D. 8-27. P. 16. 

 V. 1-5. A. 2-28. C. 20. 



SrNONYMES. Skipjack, Cateshy, Carolina, &c., vol. ii. p. 14, t. 14. 

 Gasterosteus saltatri.x, Lin., Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 491. 

 Gasterosteus saltatri.x, Gmel., Ed. Syst. Nat., torn. i. pars iii. p. 1326. 

 Pomatome skib, Lacep., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. iv. p. 268. 

 Gasterosteus saltatrix, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. iv. part ii. p. 609. 



Scomber plumbeus, Mitch., Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., vol. i. p. 424, pi. 4, fig. 1. 

 Temnodon saltator, Cuv. et Vol., Hist. Nat. Poiss., torn. i.x. p. 225, pi. 260. 

 Temnodon saltator, Storer, Eeport, &c., p. 57. 



Temnodon saltator, DeKatj, Zool. N. Y., part iii. p. 130, pi. 26, fig. 81. 

 Temnodon saltator, Webb et Berth., Hist. Nat. des Isles Canaries (Ichth. jmr Val.), 



p. 58, pi. 26, fig. 2. 

 Temnodon saltator, Store)\ Synops., p. 108. 

 Skipjack, Vidgo. 



Description. The form of this fish is oblong, compressed, thicker above, and 

 almost sharp below. The head is rather large, thick, with the line of the profile 

 slightly convex, and the snout rounded. The eyes are of moderate size, and 

 placed about the anterior third of the head, and near its median plane ; the pupil 

 is dusky, and the iris golden. The nostrils are closely approximated, and about 

 one third the distance between the orbit and the snout, on a plane above the orbit, 

 and on a line within the supra-orbital ridge ; the posterior is large and semi- 

 lunar ; the anterior is nearly round. 



The mouth is large, and opens to the anterior border of the orbit ; the lips are 

 thick, and the upper is slightly protractile ; the lower jaAV is thick in the vertical 



