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aaa. Scales very small, 150 to 170 in lat. line ; origin of spinous 

 dorsal well behind tip of pectorals, before the vertical 

 from root of ventrals ; lower jaw with fleshy tip. 



e. Body very slender, depth 9 or 10 in length; 



scales in lat. line 150. sphyrsena. 6. 



ee. Body less slender; depth H in length; scales 



in lat. line IfiO to 170. argentea. 7. 



1. Sphyrsena picuda (Bloch and Schneider) Poey, G eot Barmcuda : Picuda. 



JJmhla minor marina (the Barracuda) Catesby, Fishes Carolina, ttc, 

 1731, tab. i. 



Picuda Parra, Feces y Crustaceos de Cuba, 1787, 90, tab. 35, f. 2. 



Sphyrmna sphyrana, var. pictida, Bloch and Schneider, Systemalchth., 

 1801, 110 (after Farra). 



Spliynena picuda J? oej, Memorias Cuba, i', 1860, 164 (Havana); Gvint'ier, 

 Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 1860, 836 (San Domingo, Fuerto Cabello, 

 Jamaica, West Indies, River Niger); Poey, Froc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 179, 187 ("dentification of Paira's figure); Poey, Syn. I^isc. 

 Cub., 1868, 359 (Havana); Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 1875, 95 (Havana); 

 Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1876,62 (Bermudas); Goode and 

 Bean, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 381 (name only); Goode, Froc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 116 (South Florida); GoodeandBean, Froc. 

 TJ. S. Nat. Mus., h, 1879, 342 (West Florida, no description) ; Goode 

 and Bean, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, 146 (Cuba, Bermuda?, 

 W. Fla. and S. Fla.); Poey, Anal. Soc. Hist. Nat. Esp., 1881, 210 

 (Fuerto Rico); Goode and Bean, Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 239 

 (Gulf of Mexico, no description); Jordan and Gilbert, Froc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 589 (Charleston, S. C); Swain, Froc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phla., 1882, 307 (identification of Bsox barracuda, Shaw); 

 Jordan and Gilbert, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus., 16, 1882, 412 (West 

 Indies). 

 ? Sphyrana becuna Lac^p^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss,, v, PI. 9, f. 3, 1803, from 

 a drawing by Plumier made at Martinique); ? Cuv, and Val., Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., iii, 1829, 340 (after Lacepede); Guichenot, Ramon de la 

 Sagra, Hist. Cuba (Havana); Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 1860, 164 

 (Havana); Poey, op. cit., ii, 1860, 398 (identification with S. picuda; 

 species repvidianda). 



£!sox barracuda Shaw, Gen. Zool., v, 1804, 105 (based on Catesby). 



Sphyrcsna barracuda Cuv. and Val., op. cit., iii, 1829, 343 (Brazil); 

 Poey, Memorias Cuba, ii, 1860, 398 (species repudianda); Cope, 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. PhUa., 1871, 472 (St, Martins). 



Habitat. — West Indies and Brazil ; north to Pensacola, Charles- 

 ton and the Bermudas. 



Head 3 in length ; depth 2 in head. D. V-1, 9 ; A. 1-9. 



