532 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



Grenus Caramx, Cuv. & Val. 



Body more or less compressed ; mouth moderate. Tlie first 

 dorsal fin continuous witli feeble or rudimentary spines, a spine 

 directed forwards in front ; two anal spines separated from the 

 soft portion. Scales very small, lateral line with, an anterior 

 curved and a posterior straight portion, the latter with strongly 

 armed or keeled scales. Dentition feeble. Seven branchiostegals ; 

 air-bladder simple, bifurcate posteriorly ; pyloric appendages in 

 great number. 



Almost all temperate and tropical seas. 



348. Caranx nobilis, n. sp, 



D. 7. 1/25. A. 2/23. 



The height of the body is from three and a-half to four times 

 in the total length, the length of the head is a little less than the 

 height of the body ; the profile is slightly convex above the eye 

 and slightly concave above the snout. The maxillary bone does 

 not nearly reach the vertical from the eye, and its upper posterior 

 angle fits into a notch in the praeorbital bone. Teeth very small, 

 an outer series of small molar-like ones in the upper jaw ; none 

 on the palate. Eye moderate, about equidistant from the snout 

 and the extremity of the operculum, and about four diameters 

 apart. Breast scaly. The lateral line slightly bent, the keeled 

 plates commencing close to the tail. The pectoral fin reaches to 

 the sixth anal ray. The soft dorsal and anal fins are low and can 

 be completely received into a skinny sheath, the last ray of each is 

 longer than the others and semi-detached ; the caudal fin is forked, 

 the lobes long, spreading, and pointed. The general colour is a 

 silvery-yellow, with a bluish tint on the back. The opercular 

 spot apparently wanting; the fins are yellow, excepting the 

 caudal which is blackish on the outside. Length 24 inches. 



Port Jackson. 



