82 EDIBLE PISHES OP NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Genus II.— SERIOLA. 



Seriola,'part, Cuvier, Eegne Auim. ; Cuv. & A^al. Hist. jS'at. Poiss. ix. p. 200, 

 1833. 



Brancliiostegals si^even : pseudobrancliicie present. Body oblong and 

 moderately compressed, with the abdomen rounded. Cleft of mouth 

 moderate. Preopercle entire or very feebly serrated. Bands of villiform 

 teeth on the jaws, vomer, and palatine bones. First dorsal fin with rather 

 feeble spines, which are connected by membrane : second dorsal and anal much 

 more developed, without detached finlets ; the latter generally with a pair of 

 preanal spines separated from the rest of the fin. Scales small or rudimen- 

 tary. Lateral line unarmed. Airbladder large and simple. Pyloric 

 appendages in large numbers. 



Geographical distribution. — Nearly all the seas of the tropical and temperate 

 zones. 



SERIOLA LALANDIL 



Seriola lalandii, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Nat. Poiss. ix. p. 208, 1830 ; Gnth. Catal. 



Fish. ii. p. 463; Macleay, Catal. Austr. Pish. 1872, i. p. 174; Woods, 



Fisher. N. S. Wales, p. 59, pi. xix ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict. dec. 



xviii. pi. 172 ; Sherrin Handb. N. Z. Fish, p. 39. 

 Seriola aureo-vittata, Temm. & Schleg. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 115, pi. lxii. 



fig. 1. 

 Seriola diibia, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, vii. p. 81, and Trans. Zool. Soc. 



iii. p. 5. 

 Seriola ffrandis, Casteln. Proc. Zool. Soc. Vict. 1872, i., p. 115 ; Macleay, 



Catal. Austr. Fish i., p. 175 : Johnston, Proc. Eoy. Soc. Tas. 1882. p. 119. 

 Seriola simplex, Earns. & Ogl. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, x., p. 757. 



Kingfish. 



B. vii. D. 6-7. 1/32-34. A. 0-2. 1/20-21. V. 1/5. P. 21. C. 19. L. lat. 

 156-160. Coec. pyl. num. (113). Vert. 10-11/14. 



Length of head 4-40-4-60, of caudal fin 5-25-5-80, height of body 4-66- 

 5'25 in the total length. Eye rather small, with the adipose lid but little 

 ■developed, its diameter 4'75-5"75 in the length of the head, and 1'50-2'OOin 

 that of the snout, which is elongate, conical, and equal in length to the 

 convex interorbital space. Nostrils approximate, of equal size, oval and 

 vertical. Upper profile of head slightly convex. Jaws equal, or the lower 

 a little the longer. Cleft of mouth .slightly oblique, the maxilla extending 

 to beneath the anterior third of the orbit, or not quite so far. Jaws with 

 broad bands of villiform teeth ; vomerine teeth in a sagittate patch, palatine 

 in bands ; pterygoid bones with small scattered patches ; tongue with an- 

 oblong median patch, and with numerous small lateral patches. Dorsal 

 spines low and feeble, the fourth the longest, one-sixth of the length of 

 the head ; the anterior rays the longest, from 2'10-2"33 in the same ; the base 

 of the first dorsal ray is equidistant from the tip of the snout and the origin 

 of the caudal fin : the anal commences beneath the fifteenth or sixteenth 

 dorsal ray ; the anterior rays are similar to those of the second dorsal, 

 their length being 2'75 in that of the head ; the detached spines in front of 

 the anal are sometimes absent : the ventral fins reach to midway between 

 their origin and the vent, and their length is from 166-1 90 in that of the 

 head ; in specimens under a foot in length they are, however, much longer 



