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1346. Caranx melampygus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Pacific Ocean generally; Revillagigedo Islands. 



Caranx mdampygus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 11(5, 1833, East Indies. 



Subgenus URASPIS Bleeker. 



Craspis Bleeker, Yerhandl. Batav. Genootsch., xxiv, 1851 (boops). 



1347. Caranx guara (Bonnaterre). '' Enxar^o." 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic; Mediterranean; Africa; Brazil; Madeiras; 



South Pacific. 

 Scomber guara Bonnaterre, Encycl., 139, pi. 58, 1788, on a specimen from 



America in Jussieu's collection. 



Genus 422. GNATHANODON Bleeker. 



(hiatlinnodon Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., xxiv, Makreele, 1851 {sjjeci- 



OSHS). 



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1348. Gnathanodon speciosus (Forskal). Mojarra Dorada. 



Tropical parts of the Pacific Ocean; East Indies; Mazatlan to Panama. 

 Sconther speciosus Forskal, Descr. Anini., xii, 54, 1775, Red Sea. 



Genus 423. CARANGOIDES Bleeker. 



Carangoides Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., xxiv, Makreele, 1851 {plagio- 

 ta'tiia). 



1349. Carangoides orthogrammus (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Revillagigedo Islands; Pacific islands. 



Caranx orthogrammus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Miis. 1881, 226, Sul- 

 phur Bay, Clarion Island (Revillagigedo Archipelago). 



Genus 424, CITULA Cuvier. 



Citula Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. i, 315, 1817 (armaia). 



1350. Citula dorsalis (Gill). Pdmpano. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America; Mazatlan; Panama. 

 Carangoides dorsalis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 166, Panama. 



Genus 425. ALECTIS Eafinesque. 

 Ah'ctis Rafinescme, Analyse dc la Nature, 1815 (substitute for Callus). 



1351. Alectis ciliaris (Bloch). Tliread-fisli; Cobhler-fish; Sunfish. 



Trojiical America on both coasts, ranging north to Cape Cod and ^Slazatlan, 



Florida Keys and Cuba. 

 Zeus ciliaris Bloch, Ichthyol., \l, 29, 1788, East Indies. 



Genus 426. HYNNIS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Hynnis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 195, 1833 (gorccnsis). 



1352. Hynnis cubensis (Poey). 



Cuba. 



Hi/nnis cubensis Poey, Memorias, ii, 235, 1860, Havana. 



1353. Hynnis hopkinsi Jordan A Starks. Pampano. 



Puerto Viejo, near Mazatlan. 



Hynnis hopkinsi Jordan & Starks, in .Jordan, Fishes Sinaloa, 43.5, pi. 35, 1895, 

 Mazatlan. 



Genus 427. VOMER Cuvier & Valencieimes. 



Vomer Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 189, 1833 (browuii). 



1354. Vomer dorsalis Gill. 



West Indies and west coast of Africa. 



Vomer dorsalis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 436; after Giinther. 



1355. Vomer setipinnis (Mitchill). Blunf-iiosed Shiner; Jorobado; Moonfish; Horsefish. 



Both coasts of America, from Maine to Florida, and Capo San Lucas to Peru. 

 Zeus setipinnis Mitchill, Traus. Lit. Philos. Soc. N. Y. 1815, 384, New York. 



