100 Storey's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 



close teeth. A series of free spines, unconnected by a membrane, in place 

 of a dorsal fin ; free spines before the anal, which is long, and joins the cau- 

 dal ; ventrals remote from the pectorals, under the abdomen. 



1. Notacanthus nasus, Bloch. 



Its form is riband-like, being greatly elongated and compressed. The anus is about one 

 seventh of the total length nearer to the snout than to the tip of the caudal. There are 

 about eighty rows of scales in a longitudinal line. There are about thirty cylindrical, slight- 

 ly flattened teeth crowded into a single row on each side of the upper jaw, and more 

 slender, pointed, and slightly curved ones in the lower jaw, disposed in three or four rows 

 anteriorly, and in one, on the sides. 



D. 10. P. 17. V. 1-8. A. 13-116. C. 8. Length, 2i feet. 



Greenland, O. Faericius. 



Acanthonotus nnaus, Bi-och, xii. p. US, pi. 431. 



" " Snouted Acanthonotus, Shaw's Gen. Zool., v. p. 93, fig. 106. 



Le Notacanthe nez (Notacanthus nasus, Bl), Cuv. el Val., vm. p. 407, pi. 241. , 

 Notacanthus nasus, Beaked Notacamh, Rich., Fauna Boreal. Americ, ill. p. 82. 



GENUS XV. CARANX, Cuv. 

 Body covered with small scales, with the exception of the lateral line ; 

 lateral line armed with a series of broad scales, those on the posterior half of 

 the body having an elevated horizontal keel in the centre, forming a continuous 

 ridge, each scale ending in a point directed backwards ; two distinct dorsal 

 fins ; free spines before the anal fin ; teeth exceedingly minute ; branchios- 



tegous rays, seven. 



1. Caranx Plumieri, Cuv. 



Above bluish black ; beneath silvery ; golden reflections upon the sides, forming bands. 

 The lower edge of the operculum is slightly concave, and it has a semicircular emargination. 

 Thirty to thirty-six bony plates upon the lateral line, which is but very slightly curved. 



D 8, 1-26. P. 20. V. 1-5. A. 2, 1-22. C. 17. Length, 8 or 9 inches. 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Called " Coulirou," at St. Bartholomew and Guadaloupe. 



Scomber Plumieri, Bloch, pi. 344 ? 



" " Plumier's Mackerel, Shaw's Gen. Zool., iv. p. 538. 



Le Caranx de Plumier, Caranx Plumieri, Cuv. el Val., ix. p. G5. 



2. Caranx Blochii, Cuv. 



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Silvery, tinged with blue or green above. The head is less than a quarter ol its whole 



length ; the inferior edge of the operculum convex, and slightly emarginated- 



