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front of eye ; teeth in jaws biserial in young, uniserial in adult, the 

 teeth Hubequai, blunt ; villiforui teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue in 

 the young, these disappearing entirely with age, traces remaining in spec- 

 imens of 13 inches ; lips thick in the adult. Lateral line little arched, its 

 curved part rather longer than its straight part. Pectoral long, falcate, 

 reaching seventh soft ray of anal, slightly longer than head. Soft dorsal 

 and anal low, scarcely elevated in front, the rays 2| to 3 in head. Caudal 

 lobes long, as long as head. Bluish and silvery; a black opercular spot; 

 no spots on tins. Length 2 feet. (Steiudachner.) Tropical parts of the 

 Atlantic, widely distributed; not rare in the Mediterranean; common 

 along the coasts of Africa, Brazil, and the Madeiras. Not certainly known 

 from the West Indies, though doubtless occurring there. It is also abun- 

 dant in the South Pacific, if Caranx pluteasa and Carnnx chileimn are really 

 the same species, as is supposed. We have not studied this species and 

 are not sure of all its synonymy. {Guara Tereha, a Brazilian name used 

 by Marcgrave for some Curanx, apparently Caranx Jatim.) (Eu.) 



f Scomber atlseemionis, Osbeck, Iter China, 1757 and 1771, Euglisli edition. Ascension Island; 

 soft D. 25; A. 25. Gray above; sides silvery. Length 1 foot. May be cntiiinioiihlhiiliiiiix or 

 niber; not Scomber ascensiotiis, Forster, 1801, nor Curaiuc asceunioiiis, CuviEU & Valen- 

 ciennes, wlilch is C. higvbris. 



Scomber gnarti, Bonnatekre, Eucycl., 1788, 139, pi. 58; on a specimen from America in . I ussieu's 

 collection. 



Scomber dentex, Bloch & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 30, 1801, Brazil. 



Vuranx dentex, Cuvier it A'alenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 87, 1833; Gvnther, Cat., ii, 441, 

 1860, erroneously ascribed to New Orleans; Steindaciiner, Ichth. Berichte, v, 3G, pi. 1, 1868; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 198. 



f Tmchims imjierialis, Eafinesque, Caratteri, 42, 1810, Palermo. 



Caranx Imia, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Descr. Egypte Poiss., pi. 23, about 1820, Egypt. 



Cittdabanksi, Kl.sso, Eur. Merid., iii, 422, 1.S26, Nice. 



f Caranx platessa, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 84, IG33, seas of the Indies. 



f Caranx georgiamis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 85, 1833, Australia. 



Caranx solea, Cuvier &. Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 86, 1833, Brazil. 



Caranx analis, CuviER & Valencienne.s, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 88, 1833. 



f Caranx chilensis. Gay, Hist. Chili, Zoiil., ii, 2oO, 1850, Juan Fernandez. 



420. GNATHANODON,* Bleeker. 



GnaOianodon, Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., xxiv, Makreel';, 1851, {speciosiui; teeth on 



tongue only, none on jaws or palate). 

 Curatur, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1802, 433, (s^iccioitux; not Caranx, as restricted by 



Bleeker). 

 Ht/pocaranx, Klunzinger, Fische des Rothcn Meeres, 92, 1884, (speciosus). 



This genus differs from Caranx mainly in the dentition, the teeth being 

 very small, granular, and entirely lost with age. The maxillary is broad, 

 the body compressed, and the tins are without iilaments. Tropical seas, 

 (yvdf^of, jaw ; 0, without; MoiV, tooth.) 



♦Should the name Caranx be regarded as limited to the species (>7>fCKwi(s) first placed in it in 

 the manuscripts of ComraerBOU, the present genus would be called Caranx, rather than 

 GnaOianodon. 



