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king trevally. 



Golden Trevally; Banded Trevally. 



(Plate XXI.) 



Typt localities : — Red Sea at Jeddah (S. speciosus). 

 Red Sea at Jeddah (8. rim). 

 Red Sea at Suez (C petaurista). 

 Australia (C. poloosoo). 

 Pacific Coast of Panama (C. panamensis)'.. 

 Percy Islands, M.Q;. (C. edentulus). 

 Port Moresby, B.N.G. (C. ohiusiccps). 

 Coast of North Queensland (C cives). 



Dorsal contour of body evenly rounded and more elevated than the ventral., 

 which is sublinear and gently declivous between the throat and the origin of the 

 anal fin, beyond which it is symmetrically acclivous; width of body 2-66 to 2 in 

 its depth, which is 2-9 to 24 in its length and one eighth to one third more than 

 the length of the head ; abdominal region rather long, its length 14 to 1-55 in 

 that of the anal ; caudal peduncle from one half to one twelfth deeper than 

 wide, its width 2-55 to 1-25 in the eye-diameter. Head large, with evenly convex 

 upper profile, its length 3-35 to 345 in that of the body,- width of head 2 to 1-8 

 in its depth, which is 1-2 to 1-05 in its length; cranio-nuchal keel moderately 

 trenchant in the young, inconspicuous in the adult. Diameter of eye 3-6 to 54 

 In the length of the head. 1-33 to 2-25 in that of the snout, and 1-05 to 1-85 in 

 the elevated and sharply convex interorbital width, the adipose lid not nearly 

 reaching the pupil in front or behind. Mandible extending to below the anterior 

 border of the pupil in the young, of the eye in the adult; maxillary rather 

 shorter, its length 2-7 to 2-5 in that of the head, the width of its truncate or 

 rounded distal extremity from one fourth more in the young to three fifths less 

 in the adult than its distance from the eye and 2-05 to 1-55 in the eye-diameter. 

 Angle of preopercle feebly crenulate. 



Mb teeth, at least in the adult. 13 



"Day (1) remarks — "In young specimens several rows of villiform teeth in upper 

 jaw, with an external row of strong ones; a single row of irregularly sized ones in the lower 

 jaw; small and villiform on vomer and palate. " This is practically the adult dentition of 

 Carangus Griffith, which should, therefore, be closely associated with Caranx in the generic 

 sequence. Richardson and Cantor also describe these teeth, the latter hazarding the statement 

 that they have become imperceptible by the time the fish has attained a length of 90 millim. 

 In our smallest example we can nowhere detect any teeth, thus corroborating Cantor's state- 

 ment, nevertheless the sun-dried tongue of a large specimen is densely clothed with minute 

 acicular teeth. 



