Jordan a)id Evcrniayin. — Fishes of North America, 1409 



very sharp, 3| in head; maxillary extending to below posterior margin of 

 pupil, 2f in head; eye 7 in head; gill rakers shortish, 3-f-7; ventrals 11 in 

 pectorals; soft rays of dorsal and anal scaleless; pectorals about 1% in 

 length of head; highest dorsal spine about 2\ in head; caudal double 

 truncate. Color grayish silvery ; back and sides covered with dark-brown 

 streaks and reticulations, which obscure the ground color, especially above 

 the lateral line; lateral line in a pale streak, bordered above and below 

 by a darker one; lower parts silvery; fins unspotted; caudal yellowisli 

 orange; inside of mouth deep orange yellow. Length 3 feet. Pacific coast 

 of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama; a common food-fish on the west 

 coast of Mexico, {reticulafus, netted.) 



Otolithus reticulatus, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1864, 149, San Jose de Guatemala, 

 Chiapas ; Gunther, Fishes Central America, 387, 388, ami 430, 1869. 



Cynoscion reticulatum, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 232; Jobd.\n &. 

 Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram. 1881, 319. 



Cestreus reticulatus, JORDAN & Eigenmann, I. c, 368, 1889. 



1783. CTXOSCION NEBULOSUS (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 



(Spotted Weakfish; Spotted "Sea Trout.") 



Head 3i; depth U; eye small, fi to 7 in head. D. X-I, 2.5 to 27; A. 11, 

 10; scales 10-70 to 75-11. Body rather elongate, compressed; snout long, 

 acute, 3J in head; lower pharyngeals narrow, each with 7 or 8 series of 

 short teeth, the inner enlarged. Gill rakers short and thick, not longer 

 than pupil, about 4+7 in number; maxillary reaching to posterior edgt^ of 

 eye; canines strong; maxillary, preorbital, and lower jaw naked; longest 

 dorsal spine not quite | the length of the head; pectorals short, not 

 reaching tips of ventrals, 2;^ in head; caudal lunate; soft rays of dorsal 

 and anal scaleless. Bright silvery, darker above; back posteriorly with 

 numerous round black spots as large as the pupil; both caudal and dorsal 

 fins marked with similar, somewhat smaller spots, much as in a trout; 

 anal dusky. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, New 

 York to Texas; a most excellent food-fish, everywhere common on our 

 Southern coast; rare north of Virginia. The northernmost locality from 

 which we have examined specimens is Beesley Point, New Jersey, {nebu- 

 losus, clouded.) 



Lahrus squeteague var. maculatus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. 1815, 390, New 



York ; not Lahrus maculatus, Block. 

 Otolithus nebulosus, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 79, 1830, locality 



unknown. 

 Otolithus caroUnensis. CuviER &. VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 47.5, 1833, South 



Carolina; Gunther, Cat., u, 300, 1800. 

 Otolithus di-ummondi, Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., Fish., 70, 1836, New Orleans ; 



Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Survey, Zool., 12, pi. 6, 1859; Gunther, Cat., ii, 307, 18CU. 

 Cestreus caroUnensis, Gronow, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 49, 1854. 

 Cynoscion caroUnensis, Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 377. 

 Cynoscion maculatum, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 285; Jordan Sz. 



Gilbert, Synopsis, 581, 1883 ; Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 233. 

 Cestreus nebulosus, Jordan & Eigenmann, I. c, 368, 1889. 



