75. CARANGID^ — SELENE. 
439 
adult, very oblique in the young. First rays of dorsal and anal fila- 
mentous, exceedingly long, becoming shorter with age. Lateral line 
with a wide arch, the curved portion about equal to straight. Scaly 
sheath of fins little developed. Scutes become stronger and blunter 
with age. Yentrals broad. Occipital keel sharp. Pectorals long and 
falcate, longer than head. Head 3 Jin length 5 depth to 2. D. VI-I, 
19 ; A. I I-I, 10. Scutes 12. Cape Cod to South America ; not very 
abundant northwards. 
{Zeus crinitus Akcrly, Anicr. Jour. Sci. xi, 144 ; Dek. N. Y. Fauna, Fisk’. 123 : Caranx 
sutor GUutker, ii, 454.) 
223.— SEIiEl^E LacepMe. 
3Ioon fishes. 
(.l?'( 7 yriosi<s Lacdpetle : Vomer Cuvier.) 
(Lac^pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 560, 1803: type Selene argentea Lac.) 
Body very closely compressed and much elevated, the profile very 
obliqueor nearly vertical ; edgesof body everywhere trenchant, especially 
anteriorly. Head short and very deep, the oiiercle very short, and the 
preorbital extremely deep; an abrupt angle at the occipital region. 
Mouth rather small; premaxillaries protractile, fitting into a notch 
between the bases of the maxillaries; raaxillaries broad, each with a 
supplemental bone. Tongue narrow, free. Teeth minute, on jaws, 
tongue, vomer, and palatines. Gill-rakers long and slender. Spines of 
fins usually weak, more or less filamentous in the young; free anal 
spines immovable, sometimes obsolete in the adult. Soft fins falcate 
or not. Nofinlets. Head naked. Scales minute. Lateral line unarmed. 
Coloration silvery. the moon.) 
a. Soft dorsal and anal with the anterior rays mueh produced in the adult. {Selene.) 
693. §. vomei’ (L.) Liitken. — Moon-fish] Look Down; Horse-head. 
Bluish above, sides and below silvery with golden reflections ; ante- 
rior edge of soft dorsal black ; axil dusky. Diameter of eye, length of 
opercle, and distance from eye to profile about equal ; eye 2 in maxillary, 
2 J in preorbital ; mandibles very deep, the dentary bones thin, approxi- 
mate ; one or two of the dorsal spines greatly elongate and filamentous 
in the young, short in the adult ; ventrals variable in length, usually 
about as long as the eye ir the adult, variously elongate in partly grown 
specimens. Head 3 in length; long dorsal rays 2 ; pectoral 2|; long- 
anal rays 2|; depth IJ. D. VII-I, 22 ; A. H-I, 20 . Warm seas; 
rather common southward, north to Long Island, and Lower California. 
{Zeus vomer Lmn. Syst. Nat.: Zeus capillaris Mitch. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. 
