Table 2, —Fishes other than Brevoortia found in the Mississippi purse seine fishery, 

 1958-1959 (Cont'd.) 



Species 



Occurrence in Samples 

 Number Number 



Samples Specimens 



Observed 

 in net 

 Number 

 Sets 



34. Menticirrhus focaliger, Gulf 

 whiting 



35. Oligoplites saurus, leatherjacket 



36. Ops anus beta, toad fish 



37. Prionotus t ribulus, southern sea 



robin 



38. Raja texana, Texas clearnose 



skate 



39. Stellifer lanceolatus , star drum 



40. Anchoa hepsetus, striped anchovy 



41. Caranx hippos , jack crevalle 



42. Sphyrna tiburo, bonnethead shark 



43. Chiloraycterus schoepfi, spiny 

 boxfish 



44. Carcharhinus limbatus, small 

 black-tipped shark 



45. Sphyrna diplana, hammerhead 



shark 



46. Paralichthys lethostigmus, 



southern flounder 



47. Symphurus plagiusa , tonguefish 



48. Archosargus probatocephalus, 



sheepshead 



49. Echeneis naucrates, shark 

 remora 



50. Prionotu s sp. , sea robin 



51. Pteroplatea micrura, butterfly 



ray 



52. Rhinoptera quadroloba, cow-nose 



ray 



53. Scoliodon terrae -novae, sharp 

 nose shark 



54. Acanthostracion quadricornis, 



cowfish 



55. Anchoa mitchilli, common 



anchovy 



56. Ancylopsetta quadrocellata, 



ocellated fluke 



57. Carcharhinus leucas , bull shark 



58. Membras martinica, rough 



silver side 



59. Orthopristes chrysopterus, pig 

 fish 



60. Promicrops itaiara , jewfish 



61. Megalops atlanticus, tarpon 



62. Urophycis floridanus, southern 

 hakre 





 

























 



2 

 2 



2 



2 



Total 

 occurrence 

 Number 

 Sets 



\j Table 2 has been arranged In the order of abiindance of specimens counted in the samples. The 

 number of sets in \Aich each species was observed in the net but did not appear in the samples is listed 

 in the thiid coliunn. The fourth colimin, "total occurrence, " gives the number of different sets in which 

 each species appeared. 



