Jordan a)id Evcrniann. — Fishes of North America. 1433 



Nectoe ynector^ oue that connects; Bairdella with Ophioscion) : 



aa. Teeth of lower jaw in a narrow villiform band as in Ophioscion: month subinferior, 



little oblique, preorbital broader, gill rakers shorter; pores and slits on snout 



more conspicuous. 



e. Snout sharp; head slender, narrow above; second anal spine very large, 1| in 



head; pectoral short, U in head. Color soiled silvery. D. X-I, 21; heads 



in length. armata, 1818. 



ee. Snout bluntish, the head stout and broad above; second anal spine shortish, 



2 in head. Color dusky ; depth about 3 in length. 



/. Dorsal rays X-I, 18; scales large, 44 in lateral line; pectoral IJ in head. 



Color dark brownish, dotted. aluta, 1819. 



ff. Dorsal rays X-I, 21 or 22; scales moderate, 50 to 55; pectoral IJin head; 



caudal It ; preorbital broad. Color soiled brassy, with dark streaks 



and mottlings. cheysoleuca, 1820. 



Subgenus BAIRDIELLA. 



1814. BAIKDIELL.4 CHKYSDR.\ (Lacepide). 



(Mademoiselle ; Yellow-tail.) 



Head 3 to 3i; depth 3 to 3^; eye 4^ in head ; snout 4^. D. XI-I, 22; A. 

 II, 10; scales 8-52-12. Body oblong, compressed, the back a little elevated, 

 the profile dejiressed over the eyes; snout prominent, blnntish, as long as 

 eye; lower jaw with a single series of close-set teeth, in front of which are 

 a few smaller teeth not forming a definite series; npper jaw with an outer 

 series of small curved canities, behind which is a moderate band of villi- 

 form teeth, becoming wider laterally. Preopercle serrate, the teeth near 

 the angle larger, the lowest and largest directed downward; gill rakers 

 slender, rather long, 8+16; scales on head cycloid; base of anal little 

 oblique; ventral outline rather regularly rounded ; dorsal spines slender, 

 the highest 2^- in head; caudal long, double truncate; pectorals about as 

 long as the ventrals, 1* in head; soft dorsal and anal scaled at least I 

 their height. Second anal spine moderate, 2^ in head, not as long as the 

 soft rays, not reaching to tip of last ray when depressed; mouth large, 

 somewhat oblique, the premaxillary on the level of lower part of the eye; 

 maxillary reaching middle of eye, 2f in head. Color greenish above, 

 silvery below ; back and sides more or less densely punctate with dark 

 dots (especially in northern specimens), these forming narrow, somewhat 

 irregular streaks along the sides; fins plain, mostly yellow in life. South 

 Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, north to New York; very 

 abundant on our sandy shores from Long Island to Texas. It reaches but 

 a small size, hence, although an excellent pan fish, it has no great eco- 

 nomic value. Unlike most of the other species of the genus, its second 

 anal spine is little enlarged. (^/aucJd?, gold; ovpd, tail.) 



Perca punctata, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 482, 1766, in part, South Carolina (not Perca 



punetalus of Ed. x, which is Bodianus fulvus pimetatus) . 

 Dipterodon chrysiirus, LacIcpede. Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 64, 1802, South Carolina; niter 



LlNN^CS. 

 Bodianus argyroleucus et exiguus, MlTCHlLL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. New York 1815, 



417 and 419, pi. 6, fig. 3, New York. 

 Bodianus pallidus, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc, l, 1815, 420, New York. 

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