Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. l)2o 



breast scaly ; scaly sheath of fins little developed. Bluish ; sides {golden ; 

 a very small, black opercular spot and a black axillary spot ; young some- 

 times with faint cross bauds; fins all deep golden, especially the anal; 

 dorsal and caudal broadly margined with black, the color covering most 

 of fin ; no spot on pectoral. Pacific Coast of Mexico ; rather common 

 at Mazatlan ; recorded from Mazatlau and Panama; long confounded 

 with Cdrnux hitiis, which lives in the same waters? Caran.r iii(irf)inati(s is 

 readily known by the slenderer form, dark colors, and larger eye. (luar- 

 ghialHs, edged.) 

 Caianx iiiarijifialiis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil.i., ISCfi, Ifio, Panama. (Coll. Ciipt. Di>\v.) 



1317. CAUANX LATUS, Agaseiz. 



(JUREL ; XUREL ; HoRSE-EYE JaCK.) 



Head 3g ; depth 2i. D. VIII-I, 22 ; A. II-I, 16 to 18 ; lateral line with 

 35 scutes. Form of Caranx hippos, but the profile not so strongly arched. 

 Teeth much as in C. hippos, the canines considerably Aveaker. Gill rakers 

 rather long, about 12 below angle. Breast scaly. Scutes present on 

 whole of straight part of lateral line; arched part of lateral line 1| in 

 straight part ; an abrupt angle at junction of the two parts, which is 

 under third dorsal ray. Pectoral about as long as head ; maxillary reach: 

 lug posterior edge of pupil ; cheek and upper parts of opercles scaly - 

 scaly sheaths of fins little developed. Bluish ; sides golden or silvery; a 

 very small, black opercular spot ; young sometimes with faint dark cross 

 bands; fins mostly grayish. Anterior part of soft dorsal fin dusky; 

 caudal yellow, without black; no spot on pectorals; no axillary spot. 

 West Indies and all warm seas, occasionally north to Virginia; very 

 abundant southward; not so common northward as Caranx hippos. 

 Equally abundant on the west coast of Mexico ; our specimens from 

 Panama, Clarion Island, and Chatham Island apparently not difl^'erent 

 from West Indian examples. Also common in the East Indies, if Caranx 

 heheri is the same, as we suppose. The flesh is sometimes poisonous in 

 the tropics, giving rise to the disease called Ciguatera, {latus, broad.) 



Caranx latus, Agassiz, Pise. Bras., 105, 1829, Brazil ; Jordan & Gilhert, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 



1883, 200. 

 Caranx lepbirm, Aqassiz, Pise. Bras., 106, 1829, Brazil ; GfNTHEn, Cat., ii, 44". 

 Scomber heheri, Bennett, Fishes Ceylon, pi. 2t), 1830, Ceylon. 

 Caranx fallax, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'oiss., i.\, 95, 18.33, Antilles; Brazil ; 



PoEY, Ropertorio, 328, 1875; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 437, 1883. 

 CarangnsfaUux, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 433, and elsewhere; Piiev, Synopsis, ,364. 



1868. 

 Caranx xem, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 105, 1833, Pondicherry. 

 Caranx forsleri, Cuvier ife Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 107, 1S33, East Indies. 

 Caranx pertmi, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 112, 1833, East Indies. 

 Caranx lessoni, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 113, 1833, Malabar. 

 Caranx helengerl, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 11(5, 1833, Malabar. 

 Caranx jtaraspixtex, EicUARD.soN, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 136, 1814, Port Essington. 

 Caranx liippas, Gi'NTllER, Cat., ii, 449, 1860, not Scomber hippoalj.; (Jcntiier, Fishes Ceiitr. Amer., 



431, 1869; Pay, Fishes of Mal.aliar, 86, 1865; GfNTiiER, Fischo derSiidsee, 1.31, Ii};. S), 1S76. 

 Caranx richardi, IIolbrook, lehthyol. South Carolina, 96, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1860, South Carolina. 

 Caranx aureus,* Poey, Eniinieratio, 76, 1875, Cuba. 



* Caraux aureus, Pney. Brilliant yellow; silvery below; ventrals straw color; anal yellow; tip 

 of second dorsal and caudal lolies sreciiish. Length 10 inches. Seen iu Cuba after north 

 winds iu winter. Said to difl'or from Vuranx lalus only in color. — (Poey.) 



