230 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NOTES ON FISHES COLLECTED BY DAVID S. JORDAN AT CEDAR 



KEYS, FLORIDA. 



By DAVID S. JORDAIV and JO^^EPH 81VAI1V. 



In the raoutli of November, 1883, two clays were spent at Cedar Keys, 

 Fla., by Professor Jordan, in making collections of fishes. The seine 

 was drawn on the sand-flats in the harbor, and the catches of the seine 

 fishermen along the shore, and of the hook-and-line fishermen in deeper 

 water were examined. The fanna appears to differ in no important 

 respect from that of Pensacola. Cedar Keys are a little farther sonth, 

 and hence species of Malthe and Gerres are more abundant than at Pensa- 

 cola, while Diplodus holbroold, unknown at the latter point, is here a 

 common food-fish. We are indebted to Mr. A. Bettelini, fish-dealer at 

 Cedar Keys, for numerous specimens. 



1. Pristis pectinatus Latham. Sawfish. Rather common. 



2. Clupea pensacolae (Goode & Bean) Jordan. 



Color in life light-greenish above, a yellow shade above opercle and 

 humeral region, and on snout above ; sides of back with three or four 

 bronze streaks along middle of rows of scales, the one along the lower 

 dark row most conspicuous; iris and lower jaw gilt; sides of head 

 iridescent; dorsal and caudal fins yellowish and dotted with darker; 

 other fins translucent; no opercular spot. 



The genus Harengula seems to us not tenable. Gl. sardina Poey, a 

 near allj" of Gl. pensacola', has the scales formed much as in the latter, but 

 as readily deciduous as in the other herrings. 



3. Stolephorus bro'wui (Gmelin) Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Three specimens, each with the anal rays i, 20. 



4. Synodus fosteus (LiuniL-us) Gill. 



Several specimens taken with the seine. 



5. Fundulus similis (Baird & Girard) Giinther. 

 Common. 



6. Fundulus heteroclitus grandis Baird & Girard. 



Common. We have compared the specimens taken at Cedar Keys 

 with exami^les of the true heteroclitus from Wood's Holl, Mass.; the 

 former have the body more robust, the fins and back darker, and the 

 light spots of body and fins larger and paler. The scales on top of head 

 are usually larger in the specimens from Cedar Keys. The fins are 

 scarcely lower than in the true heteroclitus. In some specimens the 

 dorsal is 14 in head and anal li in head. As these characters are more 

 or less variable, grandis should probably be considered as a Gulf form 

 of F. heteroclitus, a subspecies rather than a species. 



