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Paratractus pisquetus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 432; Poey, Syn. Pisc. 
Cub., 1868, 366. 
Trachurus squamosus, Gronow, Syst. ed. Gray, 1856, 125. 
Carans hippos Holbr., Ichth. 8. Car., 1860, 90. 
Habitat.—Cape Cod to Brazil; generally abundant. 
This species is abundant farther north than any of the others. It has 
not been reported from the Pacific, being there replaced by C. caballus. 
18. Caranx latus Agassiz.—Jurel. 
? Scomber kleinit Bloch, Ichthyol. 1787, taf. 347; Bloch & Schneider, Syst. 
Ichthyol. 1801, 30 (description insufficient ; may be C. hippos). 
? Carane sexfasciatus Quoy & Gaimard, Zool. Voy. Freycinet, Poiss., 358, pl. 
65, f. 4, 1824 (young; perhaps of some other species); C. & V., ix, 110, 
1833 (Vanicolo; Wagiow ; Batavia). 
Caranz latus Agassiz, Pisc. Bras. 1829, 105 (Brazil). 
? Caranxz lepturus Agassiz, Pisc. Bras. 1829, 106; Giinther, ii, 447. 
? Scomber heberi Bennett, Fishes Ceylon, 1830, pl. 26. 
Caranz fallax Cuv. & Val., ix, 95, 1833 (Antilles; Brazil); Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. 
Cuba, 1, 328; ii, 14 (Cuba); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1882, 437; 
Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. U. 8. Fish Comm., 1882, 110 (Mazatlan; Panama) 
and of most recent writers. 
Carangus fallax Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 433, and elsewhere ; 
Poey, Syn. Pisce. Cub., 364, 1868; Poey, Enum. Pisc. Cubens., 1875, 75. 
Caranx sem C. & V., ix, 105 (Pondicherry). 
Caranx forsteri C. & V., ix, 107 (East Indies); Bleeker, Natuurk. Tydskr. 
Nederl. Ind., 1852, iii, 164 (East Indies). 
? Caranx canthopygus C. & V., ix, 109 (East Indies). 
? Caranz peronit C. & V., ix, 112 (East Indies). / 
? Caranx lessoni C. & V., ix, 113 (Malabar). | 
? Caranz belengeri C. & V., ix, 116 (Malabar). 
? Caranx ekala C. & V., ix, 117 (Malabar). 
Caranz flavoceruleus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1850, 110 (Japan). 
Caranx paraspistes Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 136 (Port Essington). 
Caranx hippos Giinther, ii, 449, 1860 (East and West Indies; China; Madagas- 
car); Giinther, Fishes Centr. Amer. 1869, 431 (Panama) ; Giinther, Fische 
der Siidsee, 1876, 131, f. 84 (Pacific); Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, 86 
(not Scomber hippos L.). 
Caranx richardi Holbrook, Ichth. 8. Car., 1860, 96, pl. xiii, f. 1 (South Car- 
olina). 
Carangus marginatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 166 (Panama). 
? Carangus aureus Poey, Enum. Pisce. Cubens., 1875, 76. 
Habitat.—All warm seas, north to Mazatlan and Virginia; very 
abundant in tropical America. 
19. Caranx hippos (Linnus) Jordan & Gilbert.—Cavally; Crevallé; Jack; Toro; 
Jiguagua. 
? Scomber cordula Linnzeus, Syst. Nat.,ed. x, 1758. (In part; apparently con- 
fused with Megalaspis rottleri.) 
Trachurus cordyla Gronoy., Syst. Ichth., ed. Gray, 124, 1856. 
Scomber hippos Linnzeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 1, 494, 1766 (Charleston). 
Carangus hippos Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 433, and elsewhere. 
Caranx hippus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 269; Jordan & 
Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 457, and elsewhere. 
Scomber carangus Bloch, Ichthyol., taf. 340, 1787 (on a drawing by Plumier). 
