Names of Bones 



GILES W. MEADi 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 



and 

 MARGARET G. BRADBURY 



Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University 



The bones of the skull and pectoral girdle of the hickory shad, Pomolobus mediocris 

 (Mitchill), are depicted in Figs. 1-3. These figures do not represent an attempt at a 

 critical osteological study, and the names used were chosen with regard to those most 

 frequently used in the descriptive accounts that follow, as well as to questions of 

 homology. The species illustrated may serve as an adequate guide to the bones of the 

 more common and conservative of the Isospondyli, but it will be of limited value in 

 the study of grotesque forms such as the stomiatoids and the Lyomeri. Notes on the 

 osteology of these, or references to such studies, are included in the accounts of the 

 various species. 



The fishes used were caught in Chesapeake Bay north of the town of Solomons, 

 Maryland, in November 1958. All were between 280 and 310 mm SL. One dry 

 skeleton was prepared and two were cleared in potassium hydroxide and stained 

 with alizarine. These preparations and two additional whole specimens are now in the 

 United States National Museym (USNM 186078, 186090, and 1 86091). 



I. This work was done while both authors were with the Ichthyological Laboratory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



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