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1288. SGRIOLA DORSALIS (Gill). 

 (Yeli.ow-taii.) 



He.aiU ; depth 4. D. V to VII-I, 35 to 39; A. II-I, 21. Body regularly 

 fusiform, somewhat compressed, tapering to the sharp snout and slender 

 caudal peduncle. Maxillary barely reaching front of pupil, 2;t in head, 

 mouth not very large. Gill rakers long and strong. Head naked, except 

 on the cheeks ; finsscaleless. Caudal keel moderate ; caudal lobes nearly 

 equal. Spines of moderate development, the free anal spines disappear- 

 ing with ago; pectorals shorter than ventrals, which are half length of 

 head ; longest dorsal ray f height of body. Pyloric creca very numerous. 

 Bright steel blue above ; sides dull silvery, an irregular yellowish lateral 

 band ; fins dusky yellowish green ; caudal dull yellow ; young with 10 

 indistinct dark bands, twice as wide as their intervals, the second between 

 the second and fifth dorsal spines ; dorsal and anal fins nearly black, the 

 anterior angle of the latter lighter, Length 3 feet. Pacific Coast, from 

 Point Concepcion southward to Mazatlan ; abundant in summer about the 

 Santa Barbara Islands. An excellent food-fish and much sought after by 

 anglers, (dorsalis, pertaining to the back, from the long dorsal.) 



IlnUilmrliix tlormlis, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18(53, Hi, Cape San Lucas. (Coll. X.antuB.) 

 Seriola lalandi, .Jordan & Gii.BEFiT, rroo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 450; not of Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes. 

 Seriola dorsalif, Joudan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 270 and ,sr>!); Rosa Smith, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mu!=., 1883, 2.'^4; Jordan, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 123; Goode, Fisliery Indus- 

 tries of U. S., 331, pi. 108, 1884; Jordan, Catalogue, 72, 1885; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 

 444, 1883; in part. 



1289. SERIOLA ZOXATA (Mitchill). 



(Rudder-fish ; Shark's Pilot.) 



Head 3A ; depth 3^. D. VII-I, 38 ; A. II-I, 21. Head longer than deep : 

 profile descending in a gentle curve; top of head to base of dorsal fin 

 compressed. Mouth small, nearly horizontal ; maxillary reaching to below 

 the middle of orbit. Pectorals small, rounded,' as long as eye and snout ; 

 ventrals f length of head. Vent behind middle of body. Bluish above, 

 white below ; sides with about 6 broad black bars, these forming three 

 large blotches on the dorsal and two on the anal ; the bars growing faint 

 or disappearing with age ; an oblique dark band from the spiuons dorsal 

 to the eye, the space above this olivaceous; spinous dorsal black; ven- 

 trals mostly black. Length 2 to 3 feet. Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras ; the 

 banded young rather connnon northward, (zotiafiis, banded.) 



Scotuber zotidliis^ MiTCHiLL, Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc. N. Y., ISlo, 427, New York Bay. 

 Seriola r.onatn, Gunther, Cat., ii, 4G5, 1860; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 445, 1883. 



Represented south of Cape Hatteras by 



1289a. SKRIOLA ZOXATA t'AROLlNEXSIS, Holbrook. 



Very similar to Seriola zonata, but more elongate, and paler in color. 

 Head 3^ ; depth 4S ; eye 6^. D. V to VII-I, 36 or 37; A. II-I, 19 to 21. 

 Body subfusiform, more slender, highesit at origin of second dorsal, thence 



