75. CARANGID^ — CARANX. 
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vex. Mouth very small, oblique, the maxillary scarcely reaching the 
middle of the orbit. Head small, short, about as deep as long. Eye 
large, as long as snout, in head. Gill-rakers shortish, rather strong, 
20 below arch; anal spines small, the second longest; upper lobe of the 
caudal falcate, more than a third longer than the lower. Lateral scutes 
numerous, very strong. Teeth rather strong, in one series in each jaw; 
teeth ou tongue few or none; those on vomer and palatines minute, 
deciduous; scales small; cheeks naked, breast scaly; lateral line strongly 
arched, the arch about one-third the straight portion ; scaly sheaths of 
dorsal and anal very high, extending the whole length of fin. Pectoral 
falcate longer than head, reaching anal. Head 4^ ; depth 2^. D. 
VII-T, 28; A. H-I, 25; Lat. 1. (scutes) about 50. West Indies north- 
ward; not common. 
(Holbrook, Ichtb. S. C. 1860, 94 : Caranx amhli/rliynchus Gnntber, ii, 441, pt. not 
of C. &, V.: Carangops falcatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 431.) 
aa. Teetb unequal ; lower jaw with small canines. {Carangm * Grd.) 
690. C. fallax C. & V. 
Bluish, sides golden or silvery, a very small, black opercular spot. 
Form of C. Mppus, but the profile not so strongly arched. Teeth as in 
C. Mppus. Breast entirely scaly ; anterior part of soft dorsal fin black; 
no spot on the pectorals. Scutes present on whole of straight part of 
lateral line; arched part of lateral line If in straight part; an abrupt 
angle at junction of the two parts. Pectoral shorter than head, max- 
illary reaching posterior edge of pupil ; cheek and upper jjarts of opercles 
scaly; scaly sheaths of fins little developed. Head3f; depth 2^. D. 
YIH-I, 22; A. II-I, IG; Lat. 1. 35 (scutes). Warm seas, north to South 
Carolina ; not common. 
(Cuv. & Val. ix, 95: Caranx // ippos Giiuther, ii, 449: Caranx ricJiardi Holbr. Ichtb. 
S. C. 1860, 96.) 
691. C. laippus (L.) Giinther.— Horse Crevalle. 
Olivaceous above ; sides and below silvery or golden ; a distinct black 
blotch on opercle and one on lower rays of pectorals, the latter some- 
times wanting ; axil of pectoral dusky ; anterior edge of dorsals black ; 
upper edge of caudal peduncle dusky. Body oblong, the anterior pro- 
file very strongly arched. Head large and deep. Mouth large, low, and 
nearly horizontal below axis of body; lower jaw included; maxillary 
extending to nearly ojtitosite posterior border of eye. Teeth in upper 
* Girard, U. S. Me.x. Bound. Sixrv. Ichtb. 1829, 23; type AScojuJej'carawjfMS Bloch; name 
a modification of Caranx. 
