252 VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



POLYNEMID^. 

 Polynemus octofilis, (Gill) J. and G. 



SPYR^NID^. 



PICUDA ; BARRACUDA PIKE. Spyrsena picuda, Blccla and Schn. 

 ? BARRACUDA. Sphyrsena guaguancho, Cuv. and ^'al. 



ATHERINID^. 



? SILVERSIDES. Menidia notata, (Mitch) J. and G. 

 AVANDERING SILVERSIDES. Menidia vagrans, (Goode and Bean) J. and G. 

 BOSC'S SILVERSIDES. Menidia vagrans laciniata, Swain. 

 CAROLINA SILVERSIDES. Atherina Carolina, Cuv. and Val. 



MUGILID^. 



MULLET. Mugil albula, Linne. 



WHITE MULLET; LIZA. Mugil brasiliensis, Agassiz. 



ORDER HEINIIBRANCHII. HEMIBRANCHS. 



A small order of fishes, allied to the Acanthoptcri, but having the 

 mouth bounded above by the premaxillary bones only, and the bones of 

 the throat reduced in number. The ventral fins are abdominal. 



The North American species are but eleven in number. All the rep- 

 resentatives of the order are of small size and economically unimportant. 



GASTEROSTEID.E. 



STICKLEBACK. Apeles quadracus, (Mitch.) Brevoort, 



CO:iIMOX STICKLEBACK ; BURNSTICKLE. Gasterosteus aculeatus, L. 



