75. CARANGID^ CARANX. 
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6§5. C. pisquetMS Cuv. & Val. — CremlU. 
Greenish olive, golden yellow below ; a blaek blotch on opercle. Body 
oblong, moderately elevated, the dorsal and ventral outlines about 
equally arched. Profile forming a uniform curve. Snout rather sharp. 
Mouth slightly oblique, a little below axis of body. Maxillary reaching 
about to middle of orbit. Teeth comparatively large ; a single series in 
lower jaw ; upper jaw with an inner series of smaller teeth ; no canines ; 
teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue. Eye rather small, shorter than 
snout, in head. Gill-rakers long, numerous. Pectoral as long as 
head, barely reaching anal, its broad basal part half its length. Scales 
moderate; cheeks and breast scaly. Top of head naked, with series 
of mucous pores. Lateral line with a weak arch anteriorly, which is 
about half length of straight portion. Lateral scutes numerous, devel- 
oped on whole straight part of lateral line. Head 3f ; depth 3. D. 
VIII-I, 24 ; A. II-I, 19 ; Lat. 1. 50 (scutes). L. 1 foot. Cape Cod to 
West Indies; the most abundant of the Carangidcs on our Atlantic 
coast northward. 
(Cuv. & Val. ix, 97 : Caranx hippos Holbr. Ichth. S. C. 1860, 90: Parairactus pisque- 
tus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1862, 432 : Caranx chrysos Gunther, ii, 445.) 
C§6. C. caballtas Giinther. 
Greenish above, silvery below ; a black blotch on the oiiercle, none 
elsewhere. Form of G. pisquetus ; rather elongate, not greatly com- 
pressed ; the dorsal and ventral outlines regularly and nearly equally 
arched ; a low occipital carina ; a prominent supraocular ridge. Scales 
comparatively large, the scaly sheaths of the vertical fins well developed. 
Cheeks and upper part of opercles scaled ; breast scaled, jaws naked. 
Teeth in a narrow band above, those in front somewhat enlarged, those 
of lower jaw mostly in one series ; feeble teeth on tongue, vomer, and 
palatines. Mouth rather small, the jaws nearly equal ; maxillary reaeh- 
ing front of pupil. Eye large, 3^ in head, the adipose eyelid unusually 
developed. Gill-rakers numerous, very long and slender, 28 below angle. 
Curve of lateral line low, the straight part beginning under first ray of 
second dorsal, at a distance rather more than length of head ; length of 
arch If in straight part. Scutes of lateral line strong. Pectoral fins 
very long, slender, and falcate, their length considerably more than that 
of the head ; a little less than 3 times in length of body, their tips reach- 
ing fourth anal ray ; the broad basal part forming little more than one- 
third the total length of the fin ; ventrals short ; a concealed spine 
before dorsal ; second dorsal and anal a little elevated in front, the long- 
