Jordan and Ei>ermann. — Fishes of North America. 903 



tapering evenly to snout and tail. Caudal peduncle somewhat depressed, 

 with lateral carina; and strong transverse grooves above and below ; 

 maxillary reaching vertical from middle of orbit, about 2^ in head. 

 Teeth villiforra in jaws, on vomer, palatines, and in one median and two 

 lateral series on tongue. Scales small on the cheeks, none on limb of pre- 

 opercle or the remainder of the head. Adult bluish above, whitish 

 beneath, a band of greenish yellow as wide as eye extending from pre- 

 opercle to extremity of tail ; fins greenish ; traces of bands on the opcrcle ; 

 caudal dusky, not yellow ; second dorsal and anal dusky ; tip of dorsal 

 pale; pectoral dusky ; ventral creamy, its inner edge somewhat dusky; 

 inside of mouth pale ; young banded. Gulf of Mexico and South Atlan- 

 tic Coast, common north to Cape Hatteras. 



Seriola carolineusm, Holbrook, Ichthyol. S. C, "2, 1860, Charleston, South Carolina; Jordan 



A Gilbert, Synopsis, 445, 1883. 

 Serinhi Kleamsii, Goode Si. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 48, Pensacola, Florida. (Typt', 



No. 22325. Coll. Stearns.) 



1290. SERIOLA LALANDI, Cuvier * Valenciennes. 

 (Great Amber-fish ; Amber .Iack ; Coronado.) 



Head 31 to 4i ; depth 3i to 3}. D. I, 34 ; A. I, 27 : dorsal lobes 2i in 

 head ; maxillary 21. Body slender. Dorsal fin dusky, with a light-yellow 

 submarginal band ; pectorals dusky yellowish ; ventrals yellow and 

 blackish; anal blackish, with pale edge. Young and old specimens have 

 essentially the same general form, being in all stages more slender than 

 Seriola dumeriU. A food-fish of some importance reaching a weight of 100 

 pounds and a length of 5 or 6 feet. West Florida to Brazil ; rather common ; 

 occasionally north to New Jersey ; the specimens here described from Key 

 West. (Named for M. Delalande, a well-known naturalist, who collected 

 fishes for Cuvier in Brazil.) 



Seriola Mandi, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 208, 1833, Brazil, GOntiirr, Cat., 

 II, 4r,3, 1860; Steindachner, Ichthyol. Borich., v, 40, 1868; Goode & Bean, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Commission, i, 1881, 43; .TorinAN & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mub., 1882, 271; JounAN, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 122 and 123. 



Seriola gigas, Poey, Mcmorias, ii, 227, 1860, Cuba. 



Xnnichthys gigas, Poey, Synopsis, 371, 1868. 



1291. SERIOLA DUMERILI (Risso). 

 (Amber Jack; Coronado.) 



Head 3rV ; depth 3. D. VII-I, 32; A. II-I, 21. Lobes of dorsal and 

 anal low, not quite half length of head. Nape sc.ircely carinated. Very 

 close to Seriola lalaiidi, but reaching a smaller size, and with the body 

 deeper and little compressed; mouth larger than in *S. dorsalis, ahont ns 

 in S. lalandi, the maxillary reaching middle of pupil, 2,',, in head. Gray- 

 ish, silvery below ; a gilt band through eye to base of caudal; another 

 through temporal region to front of soft dorsal ; no dark cross bands ; 

 fins plain. Length 24 inches. Mediterranean to West Indies, north to 

 Key West and Pensacola ; common southward ; a food-fish of some 



