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zontal stripe extending from snout, through eye, to caudal; an obUque bronze stripe from eye 

 to spinous dorsal; ventrals white below, anal blackish, other fins dusky yellow, {lalandi, after 

 a French naturalist named Delalande.) 



This amber-fish, which is found from Brazil to southern New England, is 

 common southward and is sometimes taken in considerable numbers on the 

 New Jersey coast. There appear to be no published records of its capture in 

 North Carolina, but it undoubtedly occurs there every year and could be found 

 if sought for with proper apparatus on the outer shores. 



Fig. 82. Amber-fish. Seriola lalandi. 



A number of years ago, some New Jersey fishermen set pound-nets ofT the 



beach at Nags Head and for some time caught numbers of fine, large amber-fish, 



and 20 boxes of the fish were sent to market from Skyco, Roanoke Island. The 



steamer Fish-Hawk caught a specimen about 28 miles off Cape Lookout, Au^ast 



21, 1902. 



Genus CARANX Lac^pede. Crevall^s; Cavallies. 



A numerous genus of rather small marine species, found in all warm seas, 

 some of them valuable food fishes. Form ovate, considerably compressed; back 

 sometimes arched; head large or moderate; mouth rather large, maxillary reach- 

 ing to below or beyond eye; jaw teeth not in villiform bands, usually present on 

 vomer, tongue, and palatines; premaxillaries protractile; gill-rakers long; e3'e 

 large, with adipose eye-lid; anterior dorsal fin rather low, the spines connected by 

 membrane, soft dorsal elevated in front, both fins depressible in a groove; anal 

 fin similar to soft dorsal, preceded by 2 strong spines; pectoral fins falcate; pos- 

 terior part of lateral line with strong bony plates, each plate with a spine; a short 

 dorsal branch of lateral line usually present. The American species number a 

 dozen or more; the 5 known from the east coast of the United States have been 

 noted in local waters. 



Key to the North Carolina species of Caranx. 



i. Soft dorsal and anal fins only slightly elevated in front, their rays about 27 and 23 respec- 

 tively; teeth in a narrow band in each jaw, without canines, 

 o. Greatest depth of body contained 2.8 times in length; straight part of lateral line about as 



long as curved part; color pale, mostly golden bartholomoei. 



aa. Greatest depth of body contained 3.5 times in length; straight part of lateral line much 

 longer than curved part; color dark, mostly bluish ruber. 



