' 77. STROMATEIDJi:. 
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late. Lateral line unarmed. Yentrals tlioracic, I, 5. sometimes depress- 
ible in a deep groove in the abdomen. Dorsal fins separate ; the spines 
usuallj" feeble, connected by membrane. Soft dorsal long, sometimes 
with finlets; anal fin similar to soft dorsal, without free spines; caudal 
peduncle slender, the fin widely forked. Pyloric caeca numerous. Gen- 
era 5 ; species about 10. Fishes of the tropical seas. 
(IScomhrida^, group Nomcina Giiuther, ii, 387-392.) 
a. Cleft of mouth narrow ; .veutrals received in a deep groove in the abdomen. 
Nomeus, 231. 
231 .— NOITIEUS Cuvier. 
(Cuvier, Regue Anim. 1817 : typo Gohitis grovoi'ii Gmelin.) 
Body oblong, rather compressed, covered with rather small cycloid 
scales. Head tlattish above; occipital -crest little developed; cleft of 
the mouth narrow. Teeth small, in a single series in the jaws; teeth 
on the vomer and palatines. Pseudobranchite large. First dorsal with 
10 or 11 spines ; second dorsal and anal very long, similar to each other, 
without finlets ; anal fin with 3 rather strong spines, none of them free ; 
caudal fin not deeply forked ; ventral fins long and broad, attached to 
the belly by a membrane, depressible in a deep furrow^ in the abdomen. 
Lateral line running high. Air-bladder i:)resent. Pyloric coeca very 
numerous. Vertebrte 16-|-25. Warm seas. (>o,a£y?, pastor; early 
travellers having compared the fish to a mullet, herder or herger in 
Dutch.) 
lOd. N. groMOvii (Gmel.) Gthr. 
Brownish above, silvery below, the sides below with large round 
brown spots ; ventrals black, with silveiy edgings ; anal with 3 brown 
spots. Maxillary reaching to below the front of the eye; ventrals 
reaching front of anal, pectorals still further. D. X-I, 20; A. Ill, 
20. Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; north to 
Florida. 
{Gohius gronovii Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1788, 1205: Nomeus mauritii Cuv. & Val. ix, 243: 
Giiuther, ii, 387.) 
Family LXXVII.— STROMATEID.E. 
{The Broad Shiners.) 
Scombroid fishes, Avith the body compressed and more or less ele- 
vated, covered with small or minute cycloid scales. Profile anteriorly 
blunt and rounded. Mouth small. Premaxillaries protractile or not. 
Dentition feeble ; no teeth on vomer or palatines ; oesophagus armed 
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