568 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



277 Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus) 

 / Bermuda Chub 



Perca sectatrix LINNAEUS. Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 486, 1766. 



Pimeleptents boscii OUVIEB & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. VII, 258, 

 pi. 187, 1831; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 100, pi. XX, fig. 56, 1842, 

 copied from Ctrv. & VAL.; JOBDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 561, 1883. 



Kyphosus sectatrix JOBDAN & FESLER, Kept. U. S. F. C. 1880 to 1891, 525, 

 1893; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist IX, 366, 1897; H. MT. SMITH, 

 Bull. TJ. S. F. C. 1897, 101, 1898; JOBDAN & EVEBMANN, Bull. 47, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus, 1387, 1898, pi. OCXIX, fig. 559, 1900. 



Body ovate-elliptic, somewhat compressed, its greatest hight 

 two fifths of the total length without caudal; the least depth of 

 caudal peduncle nearly one half length of head. Head short, 

 one fourth of total length without caudal; snout short; mouth 

 small, the maxillary reaching to below front of orbit; teeth 

 35 to 40 on each side, their horizontal process not much longer 

 than the vertical; width of interorbital space two fifths length 

 of head; eye equal to snout, and more than one fourth length 

 of head; top and sides of head finely scaled; interorbital region 

 gibbous; preopercle serrulate; gill rakers long. Longest dor- 

 sal spine equals snout and is nearly one fifth depth of body; 

 longest ray of soft dorsal two sevenths as long as the head. 

 The second anal spine is about two thirds as long as the eye; 

 the longest anal ray is one third as long as the head. Caudal 

 deeply forked, the middle rays about one half as long as the 

 outer, which are nearly as long as the head. Pectoral two 

 thirds as long as the head, and equal to ventral, which reaches 

 to below the ninth spine of the dorsal. Soft dorsal and anal 

 closely scaled; most of caudal scaly. 



D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 11; V. I, 5; P. i, 16; scales 10-66-16; ver- 

 tebrae 9+16. 



Color in life dusky or steel gray, very slightly bluish, not much 

 paler below; the edges of each row of scales on back and sides 

 slightly brassy so that very faint yellowish stripes alternate 

 with bluish ones of about equal width; the stripes thus formed 

 vary from 25 to 34 in number. A diffuse pale stripe below the 

 eye; a yellowish one above and below this; fins all dull grayish; 

 ventrals and anal blackish; edge of opercle slightly darker. 



