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16. Number of gill rakers on first arch, including rudiments, 4 to 6 + 1 + 12 to 14. 

 2a. Premaxillary with a band of villiformlike teeth along its entire length, 

 posteriorly narrow, but anteriorly wide, consisting of several rows; teeth 

 on dentary becoming a band anteriorly; dorsal rays IV-I, 19 to 21, rarely 

 with V free spines; depth 3.4 to 3.8; head in greatest depth of body 1.2 to 

 1.4; posterior tip of maxillary rounded, reaching past orbits in adults; gill 

 rakers on lower limb of first arch 12 or 13. 



Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 

 26. Premaxillary teeth essentially in two distinct rows along its entire length 

 except far posteriorly, where it may become an irregular row, and far 

 anteriorly near tip of snout where a minute row of teeth may occur be- 

 tween the two distinct ones; teeth on dentary in two rows; dorsal rays 

 V-I, 18 to 21, rarely IV or V free spines; depth 3.4 to 4.1; head in greatest 

 depth 1.0 to 1.6; posterior edge of maxillary rounded and usually not 

 reaching past orbits; gill rakers on lower limb of first arch usually 13 or 

 14, counting rudiments Oligoplites saurus saurus (Bloch) 



OUGOPUTES SAUENS (Bloch) 



Zapatero de mar 



Scomber saliens Bloch, Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 10, 

 p. 41, pi. 335, 1797 (Antilles). 



I have examined specimens of this species from the Atlantic coast of 

 Central America, Gulf of Venezuela, Trinidad, and Brazil. The 

 following specimens were collected by the U. S. S. Niagara in the GuK 

 of Venezuela : 



U.S.N. M. No. 123075, 1 specimen, 84 mm. in standard length, from Amuay Bay, 

 December 9, 1924. 



U.S.N.M. No. 123073, 1 specimen, 79 mm., Estanques Bay, February 20, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 123074, 1 specimen, 33.5 mm., from south coast, November 15, 

 1925. 



OUGOPLITES palometa (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Palometa de lago 



Chorinemus palometa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 



vol. 8, p. 392, 1831 (Lake Maracaibo). 

 Chorinemus saliens, var. palometa Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British 



Museum, vol. 2, p. 475, 1860 (Lake Maracaibo). 

 Oligoplites saliens palometa Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 47, 



pt. 1, p. 899, 1896 (Lake Maracaibo). 

 Oligoplites palometa Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. 



for 1928, pt. 2, p. 278, 1930 (Lake Maracaibo). 

 Scombroides palometa Regan, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Pisces, p. 15, fig., 1908 



(Lago Yzabal, Guatemala; Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. No. 121804, 4 specimens, 114 to 230 mm., Lago Maracaibo near mouth 

 of Rfo Concha, May 2, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121805, 2 specimens, 230 and 290 mm., from Rio de Los P^jaros, 

 3 km. above Lago de Maracaibo, April 30, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121S03. 1 specimen, 335 mm., from market at Maracaibo, May 

 15. 1942. 



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