﻿92 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



368. Caranx crysos Mitchill. 

 Hardtail: Yellow Mackerel. 

 Marine. 



According to Jones, not uncommon in the waters of Nova Scotia (1879, as Paratractus 

 pisquetus): ranges southward to coast of Brazil: according to Evermann and Marsh 

 "one of the best game-fishes of Porto Rico." 



369. Selene vomer Linnteus. 

 Moonfish. 



Marine. 



"Specimens are occasionally taken in shore waters" of Nova Scotia (Jones, 1879, as Argy- 

 riosus vomer) ; and "the young of it is said, in one or two instances, to have been found 

 as far north as Halifax" (Honeyman, 1886, as S. argentea): ordinarily Atlantic 

 and Pacific* coasts of America "from Cape Cod to Brazil, and from California to 

 Peru": included among the fishes of Porto Rico "on the authority of Poey and Stahl" 

 (Evermann and Marsh, 1899). 



370. Pomatomus saltatrix Linnneus. 

 Bluefish. 



Marine. 



"Inserted on the authority of Dr. Bernard Gilpin, who has seen specimens taken on this 



[Nova Scotian] coast" (Jones, 1879): widely distributed: Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 



and occasionally occurring in the Mediterranean. 



371. Brama rail Bloch. 

 Pomfret. 

 Pelagic. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound, southward to Santa Catalina; Grand Banks, New- 

 foundland, and the Bermuda Islands: coasts of Europe, including the British Isles, 

 and northward to the Faroe Islands: also occurs on the coast of Japan. 



372. Atheresthes stomias Jordan ami (iilbcrt. 

 Arrow-toothed Halibut. 



Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California northward to Bering Sea. 



373. Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Walljaum. 

 Greenland Halibut. 



Marine. 



Arctic regions, extending southward to the Grand Banks and to Finland: coasts of Green- 

 land:! Fortune Bay, Newfoundland: recorded from Canso, Nova Scotia (Cornish, 

 1901 or 1902): "occasional specimens are brought us from the northern fishing banks 

 [of Nova Scotia], but it is more common off Newfoundland" (Jones, 1879, as Platy- 

 somatichthys hippoglossoides) . 



*"The Pacific Coast form brevoortii=pacificus, is not evidently different from Selene vomer." Jordan and 

 Evermann. 



■)""It is said to be found chiefly in the ice-fiords and between the great ice fields in Northern Greenland." Jordan 

 and Evennann. 



