Storer's Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 1 1 3 



1. Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw. 



Body elongated, compressed, destitute of scales, of a silvery or pearly color. The caudal 

 fin, looking like a second dorsal, is composed of six rays, the first five of which are short ; 

 the sixth forms a hair-like cord, concave upon its sides, rounded above and beneath, which is 

 more than twice the length of the body. 



D. (?). P. (?)• V. (?). A. (?). C. (?)• Length, 10 to 11 inches, exclusive of tail. 



Caribbean Sea, Shaw. 



Stylephorus chordatus, Shaw, Lin. Trans., i. p. 90, pi. 6. 



" " " Nat. Miscellany, VIII. pi. 274. 



" " Chordated Stylephorus, Shaw's Gen. Zool., iv. p. S7, pi. 11. 



" " Blainville, Journ. de Physique, Lxxxvn. p. 60, pi. 1, fig. I. 



" " Griffith's Cov., x. p. 211. 



Stylephore acorde, Stylephorus chordatus, Ccv. et Val., x. p. 381. 



FAMILY X. ATHERINIDiE. 



Mouth protractile ; no notch on the upper jaw, nor tuhercle on the lower. 

 Suborbital not dentaled. A broad silvery band on the side. Very small 

 crowded teeth on the pharyngeals. The first branchial arch with long pecti- 

 nations. Two dorsal fins, most commonly distant. Ventrals behind the pec- 

 torals. 



GENUS I. ATHERINA, Lin. 



Body elongated. Two dorsals widely separated ; ventrals further back than 

 the pectorals ; the mouth highly protractile, and furnished with very minute 

 teeth. A broad silvery band along each flank on all the known species. 



1. Atherina menidia, Lin. 



Light colored, the black points in the edge of the scales very small. Height one seventh 

 of its length ; its head is three tenths its whole length. Dorsals distant ; the second dor- 

 sal nearly over the middle of the anal. One of the most elongated of the genus. 



B. 5, 1-9. P. 15. V. 1-5. A. 1-25. C 19. Length, 5 inches. 



New York, Cuv. South Carolina, Liit., Dekay. 



Called "Silver-fish," in Carolina. 



Atherina menidia, Lin , Syst. Nat. (12th edit.), p. 519. 



Atherina viridescens, Green-striped Silver-side, Mitchill, Trans-, Lit. et Phil. Soc. of N. Y., i. p. ll.\ 



L'Alherine menidie (Atherina menidia. Lin.). Cuv. et Val., e. p 



Atherina menidia, Slender Silver-side, Dekay's Report, p. 112, pi. 74, fi». 226. 



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