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rakers 7 + 13, lanceolate, rather stout, and longest about *°/; 
of orbit. Scales minute. Lateral line high and concurrent with 
dorsal profile. A series of conspicuous pores above lateral line 
near base of dorsal. Dorsal begins about opposite first fourth of 
pectoral, and first branched rays highest. Anal similar, origin 
of rayed fin beginning about opposite last 24 of pectoral. Caudal 
strongly forked, lobes slender and pointed. Pectoral long, lan- 
ceolate. Color slaty-blue above, below silvery. Length 47% 
inches. Sea Isle City. 
It also occurs at Cape May, Stone Harbor, Beesley’s Point and 
Atlantic City. An excellent pan-fish of fine flavor reaching a 
length of 10 inches. Very abundant during the late summer and 
early fall. 
Peprilus triacanthus Baird, 9th An. Rep. Smiths. Inst., 1854, 
Pp. 338. 
Poronotus triacanthus Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 812.— 
Bommel S- F.Com. Vil, 1887. p. 140. 
Stromateus triacanthus Moore, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, 
p. 361.—Smith, Bull. U. S. F. Com., XII, 1892, p. 374. 
Family CENTROLOPHIDE. 
The Rudder Fishes. 
Body oblong, or elongate, compressed. Mouth moderate, with 
small teeth. Premaxillaries protractile. Bones of head some- 
times serrulate. Skeleton moderately firm. Csophagus with 
tooth-like processes as in Stromateide. Vertebre in normal num- 
ber, 10 + 14 or 15 = 24 or 25. Body covered with moderate 
cycloid adherent scales. Lateral line present, straightish. Dorsal 
fin long, 3 to 10 of anterior rays simple, more or less spine-like. 
Anal similar, shorter. Caudal lunate. Ventral I, 5, well de- 
veloped, thoracic. 
Fishes of open seas, inhabiting moderate depths. 
