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a. Soft dorsal with about 25 rays; depth in adult less than half length. doesalis, 1328. 

 aa. Soft dorsal witli 21 or 22 ra}S. 



h. Depth in adult about half length. setipi.nnis, 1329. 



(//(. Depth in adult much more than half length. gabonensis, 1330. 



1328. VOMER DORSALIS, Gill. 



Dopth less than half length of hody. D. VII-I, 25 ; A. I, 20. West Indies 

 and Avest coast of Africa. (Giinther.) A doubtful species, not seen by us. 

 {dormlisj pertaining to the dorsal, which is longer than in Vomer scti2)hnns.) 

 Argnreiostis nedjiiimis. Tar. B, GfNTiiF.B, Cat., Ii, 459, ISiiO, St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands; 



■West Indies. 

 Vomer dorsalis. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 436; after Gunther. 

 Vomer senegalcnsis, Guichenot, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 1865, 35, Senegal. 

 Vomer goreensis, Guichenot, 1. p., 37, Gorea. 

 Caranx setipinnU dorsalis, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 204. 



1829. VOMER SETIPINNIS (Mitchill). 

 (JonOBADO; Moonfish; Hoksefish; Bi.unt-nosed Shiner.) 



Head 3i ; depth 2 in adult, U to If in young. D. VII I-I, 21 or 22; A. 

 11-1,19 or 20; scutes 20. Body oblong, rhombic, less elevated than in 

 SeJenc roiiier; profile anteriorly nearly vertical, highest above the eye, 

 snout somewhat protruding, belly mostly arched in the young; mouth 

 oblique; maxillary reaching vertical from front of orbit. Ventral fins 

 minute; dorsal and anal very low, especially in the adult, the long raj's 

 disappearing very early ; pectorals falcate, about as long as head. Green- 

 ish above, below golden or silvery. Young with a black blotch at origin 

 of straight part of lateral line. Tropical America, on both coasts; from 

 Maine to Brazil, and Cape San Lucas to Peru; generally common south- 

 ward, the young coming northward in the Gulf Stream ; also in Western 

 Africa, (seia, bristle ; jjhina, fin.) 



Zeus seliphmis, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 384, New York. 

 Vomer hrouni, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 189, plate 250, 1833, New York 



and 'West Indies. 

 Ai-gyreUisds selipiiinis, Gunther, Cat., il, 459, 1860. 

 Vomer selipinnis, GiLL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 436; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 440, 



1883; Jordan &, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1SS3, 204. 

 Selene selipimiL<i, LPtken, Spolja Atlantica, 135, 1880. 

 PlcUysomns spacH, Sy,'AmsoK, Class'u Fishes, ii, 1839, 250, 406, Brazil; after Spix and Agassiz, 



pi. 57. 

 Platysomus mieropiteryi, Swain.son, I.e., 406, Pernambuco. 



Argyreiosus wiimacidalits, Batchelder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1845, 78, Maine; young. 

 Vomer sancUe-marthx, eolnmhiatms,marlinicensis, domiuicensis, iincehorareusis, saiiclie-pi'tri, In-dsilieiisis, 



caycmi dixit, and mhr, GricnENOT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine ct Loire, 1805, 38 to 44, localities 



indicated by the names. 

 Vomer curtus, Cope, Proc. Araer. Philos. Soc. Pliila., 1870, 119, Rhode Island; young. 



1330. VOMER OABONENSIS, Guichenot. 



Depth in adult more than half length. D. VIII-T. 22: A. I, 18 or 19. 

 West Indies and we"t coast of Africa (Giinther). A doubtful species, not 

 seen by us. 



