FF-4, 39, 12.7-28.7 

 HH-1, 1, 32.4 

 HH-2, 3, 14.8-22.5 

 HH-4, 5, 12.8-24.3 

 HH-5, 1, 14.8 

 JJ-3, 7, 8.6-26.9 

 KK-1, 4, 21.6-25.4 

 KK-2, 8, 12.9-32.9 

 KK-3, 1, 22.8 

 MM-1, 1. 15.9 



D-67-8 Jul-Aug 

 DD-2, 1, 13.3 

 FF-2, 4. 12.4-14.1 



D-67-16 Oct 

 LL-3, 2, 11.3-12.2 



D-68-1 Jan-Feb 

 AA-2, 1, 14.9 

 AA-4, 2, 14.2-15.4 

 FF-5, 3, 10.8-18.2 

 GG-2, 18, 11.3-38.0 

 GG-3, .3, 16.6-41.7 



GG-5, I, 18.2 



HH-3, 3, 20.8-24.0 

 Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes 

 freckled driftfish 

 D-67-4 May 



EE-6, 1. 21.0 



JJ-6, 1, 24.2 



MM-4, 1, 30.1 



PP-2, 1, 15.2 

 D-67-8 Jul-Aug 



AA-7, 1, 23.4 



BB-5, 1, 19.8 



BB-6, 1, 22.5 



CC-7, 1, 14.3 



DD-6, 1, 23.7 



LL-5, 1, 15.4 



NN-3, 1. 19.9 

 D-68-! Jan-Feb 



DD-6, 1, 22.2 



PP-2, 1, 60.9 



Small butterfish are probably more typical of sur- 

 face waters north of Cape Kennedy than south. 

 Dooley (1972) caught none off Miami, and except for 

 one specimen from the offing of Vero Beach, our 

 records were all north of Cape Kennedy. Lengths of 

 specimens indicate spawning occurs throughout the 

 year, and is not restricted to summer and early fall as 

 is true north of Cape Hatteras (Haedrich 1967). 



I cannot report how strongly associated with 

 medusae any of these stromateids are since the net 

 only rarely contained jellyfish or Portugese man-of- 

 war, and not on any of the stations where stromateids 

 were taken. 



SCORPAENIDAE 



Scorpaena sp. 



D-67-4 May 

 JJ-3, 1, 11.8 



D-67-8 Jul-Aug 

 PP-3, 1, 10.5 



D-67-16 Oct 

 CC-5, 1, 11.2 

 HH-6, 1, 10.3 

 MM-4, 2, 9.3-10.1 



D-68-1 Jan-Feb 

 AA-5, 1, 11.6 

 NN-2, 1, 11.5 



TRIGLIDAE 



Unidentified 

 D-67-4 May 



AA-1, 1, 11.2 

 D-67-16 Oct 



CC-5, 2, 5.2-6.4 



CC-6, 1, 9.8 



HH-6, 2, 12.7-13.5 



HH-7, 1, 11.5 



DACTYLOPTERIDAE 



Dactylopterus volitans (Linnaeus) 

 flying gurnard 

 D-67-4 May 



NN-3, 1, 10.5 

 D-67-8 Jul-Aug 



DD-6, 1, 6.3 SL 



NN-3, 1, 11.2 SL 



BOTHIDAE 



Bothus ocellatus (Agassiz) 

 eyed flounder 

 D-67-4 May 



AA-2, 15, 15.2-23.8 



AA-3, 4, 17.6-21.9 



AA-4, 2, 20.1-20.7 



AA-6, 1, 19.3 



BB-4, 1, 13.0 



CC-7, 1, 11.7 



KK-4, 1, 19.5 



LL-4, 1, 16.6 



LL-5, 1, 17.5 



MM-3, 2, 10.0-15.7 



NN-4, 1, 13.2 



PP-1, 1, 13.5 

 D-67-8 Jul-Aug 



AA-1, 1, 11.5 



AA-6, 2, 15.0-15.2 



AA-7, 5, 7.4-21.4 

 DD-3, 1, 7.1 

 DD-6, 1, 19.1 

 FF-1, 1, 19.5 

 FF-2, 10, 14.3-19.6 

 HH-6, 3, 10.1-16.0 

 JJ-4, 3, 12.0-17.2 

 JJ-5, 2, 9.4-12.8 

 KK-6, 2, 11.2-14.5 

 MM-1, 7, 10.3-18.4 

 MM-2, 20, 13.2-19.3 

 MM-3, 6, 9.7-17.4 

 NN-2, 1, 12.8 

 PP-1, 3, 11.4-24.9 

 PP-3, 1, 21.7 



D-67-16 Oct 

 AA-5, 1, 10.3 

 DD-6. 2, 13.9-15.5 

 HH-6, 45. 11.5-23.3 

 HH-7, 13, 11.5-21.9 

 LL-4, 4, 10.5-21.1 

 NN-3, 1, 18.5 

 PP-1, 7, 12.2-19.9 

 PP-2, 8. 13.4-21.6 



D-68-1 Jan-Feb 

 AA-4, 3, 17.2-20.1 

 BB-2, 2, 12.4-12.9 



BB-4, 5. 

 CC-4, 1. 

 DD-6, 1, 

 EE-2, 1, 

 EE-4, 2, 



11.1-15.4 



17.1 



17.3 



21.6 



12.9-20.3 



EE-5, 2, 14.5-15.3 



EE-6, 2, 9.6-16.9 

 FF-3, 4, 13.7-21.1 

 FF-4, 12, 12.9-18.6 

 FF-5, 8, 13.0-23.8 

 GG-5, 1, 21.8 

 GG-6, 4, 16.3-17.3 

 GG-7, 1, 12.2 

 HH-5, 2, 12.9-16.2 

 JJ-5, 5, 12.5-20.1 

 KK-5, 6, 14.1-20.0 

 LL-2, 1, 16.1 

 NN-1, 8, 11.0-22.8 

 NN-2, 4, 19.3-24.0 

 NN-3, 2, 21.0-24.0 

 PP-1, 1, 17.4 

 PP-2, 2, 14.3-20.1 

 PP-3, 1, 14.9 



Unidentified 



D-67-4 May 

 AA-1, 4, 11.2-13.5 

 AA-2, 2, 14.2-14.4 

 HH-2, 1, 13.8 



D-67-8 Jul-Aug 

 FF-2, 10, 13.2-14.5 



D-67-16 Oct 

 GG-4, 1, 12.7 

 HH-6, 5, 10.3-17.0 



D-68-1 Jan-Feb 

 AA-4, 1, 13.4 

 DD-3, 3, 10.1-12.4 

 FF-5, 2, 11.2-13.2 

 JJ-3, 1, 16.3 

 LL-5, 1, 13.2 



Bothus ocellatus larvae are a common constituent 

 of the surface fauna off the southeastern United 

 States. They occurred during all seasons and 

 throughout the entire range of our survey. Similar 

 length ranges during all seasons indicate year-round 

 spawning (Table 8), and maximum lengths of about 

 24.0 mm indicate that this is the maximum size before 

 metamorphosis when the larvae begin a demersal ex- 

 istence and are no longer available to surface 

 samplers. 



All of the unidentified bothid larvae are either 

 Citharichthys sp. or Etropus sp. None is assignable to 

 C. arctifrons or E. microstomas as described by 

 Leonard (1971). Because of overlapping meristic 

 characters among species in these two genera we are 

 unable to identify these specimens. 



SOLEffiAE 



Gymnachirus metas Nichols 

 naked sole 



D-68-1 Jan-Feb 

 LL-2, 1, 123.0 



Table 8.— Summary of catch data for Bothus ocellatus. 



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