84 Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



GENUS I. SMARIS, Cuv. 



Body oblong, compressed, and somewhat similar to that of a herring ; an 

 elongated scale above each of the ventrals, and another between them. 

 Teeth in jaws extremely fine, forming a very narrow band. Vomer destitute 

 of teeth. 



1. Smaris Martinicus, Cuv. 



Body rounded, contracted. Reddish upon the back, silvery beneath ; a small black spot 

 upon the side. 

 D. 11-11- P- (-')• V. (?). A.3-9. C. (.')• Length, 4 inches. 

 Caribbean Sea, Cut. 



Le Picarel de la Martinique, Smaris Martinicus, Cuv. et Val., vi. p. 424. 



GENUS II. GERRES, Cuv. 



The mouth protractile, but when advancing it descends ; the body is ele- 

 vated, the anterior part of the dorsal in particular, along the base of whose 

 posterior portion is a scaly sheath. 



1. Gerres aprion, Cuv. 



Elongated. Silvery, with bluish reflections towards the back, as in the most beautiful 

 herring. The dorsal, in the recent state, is a very pale yellow, finely dotted with blackish. 

 This species receives its name from its preoperculum being unarmed ; also the interopercle 

 and suborbitar. 



B. 6. D. 9-10. P. (.'). V. (?). A. 3-7. C. (?). Length, 3 to 6 inches. 



South Carolina, Catf.sby. Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Turdus cinereus pellalus, Shad, Catesby's Hist. Carol., n. pi. 2, fig. 2. 

 Le Gerres sans scie, Gerres aprion, Cuv. et Val,, vi. p. 461. 

 " " Dekay's Report, p. 97. 



2. Gerres Brasilianus, Cuv. 



Height equal to one fifth of its length. Silvery gray, with ten or eleven longitudinal lines 

 upon the sides. 

 D. 9-10. P. 16. V. 1-5. A.3-9. C. 17. Length, 8 or 9 inches. 

 Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 

 Called, at Porto Rico, " Moharra." 



Le Gerres du Bresil, Gerres Brasilianus, Cuv. et Val., vi. p. 45S. 



