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POMATOMUS SALTATRIX (Linnaeus) 



Pez azul 



Perca saltatrix Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 293, 1758 (America). 

 Temnodon saltator Metzelaar, Report on the fishes collected by Dr. J. Boeke in 



the Dutch West Indies 1904^-1905, p. 125, 1919 (Cardpano, Venezuela). 

 Pomalomus saltatrix Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 399, 1942 (coast of 



Venezuela). 



The following collections were made by the U. S. S. Niagara in the 

 Gulf of Venezuela: 



U.S.N.M. No. 123046, 1 specimen, 75 mm. in standard length. Point Macolla, 

 April 19, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 123047, 2 specimens, 112 and 125 mm., Salinas Bay, April 5, 1925. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 123048, 2 specimens, 84 to 266 mm., Piedras Bay, March 14, 1925. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 123045, 1 specimen, 132 mm., Cape San Romdn, April 2, 1925. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 123117, 1 specimen, 515 mm., Sahnas Point, December 18, 1924. 



Family RACHYCENTRIDAE 



Genus RACHYCENTRON Kaup 



Rachycentron Kaup, Isis, vol. 19, p. 89, 1826. (Genotype, Rachycentron typus 

 Kaup.) 



RACHYCENTRON CANADUS (Linnaeus) 



Serge antfish; Crabeater 

 Gasterosteus canadus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, p. 491, 1766 (CaroHna). 



U.S.N.M. No. 123064, a large specimen, from the south coast of the Gulf of 

 Venezuela, U. S. S. Niagara, November 8, 1924. 



Family CARANGIDAE: Pampanos 



The material representing this family from Venezuela is rather 

 scanty. A few genera that are to be expected in Venezuelan waters 

 do not occur in the national collection, but undoubtedly they will 

 be taken when adequate collections are made. I am copying Meek 

 and Hildebrand's "Key to the Genera" of this family from "The 

 Marine Fishes of Panama," part 2, pp. 332-333, 1925. This key, 

 however, has been somewhat modified and more or less restricted to 

 cover the Venezuelan coastal waters. 



la. Lateral line wholly or in part armed with bony scutes (very weak and occa- 

 sionally wanting in Chloroscombrus) . 

 2a. Dorsal and anal each with a single detached finlet (see also Elagatis); 

 dorsal rays VII or VIII, 29 to 31,1; anal II-I, 25 to 27, 1; lateral scutes 



35 to 42 Decapterus " Bleeker 



26. Dorsal and anal without finlets. 



3a. Shoulder girdle with a deep furrow near its juncture with the isthmus, and 

 a fleshy projection above it; eye large; dorsal rays VIII-I, 23 to 26; 

 anal II-I, 20 to 23; about 23 to 27 gill rakers on lower limb of first gill 



arch Trachurops Gill 



3b. Shoulder girdle normal, not as above; eye of moderate size. 



" Not yet reported from Venezuelan waters. 



