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144 Synodus foetens (Linnaeus) 

 LLaid FisJt 



Siihiio foetens Linxakis. Syst. Nat. ed. XII. I. 518, 1766, Soiitli Carolina. 

 Ksnr sdliiioiieiis Mit( Tiii.i,. Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. X. Y. 1, 442. 181.i. New 



York. 

 aS'm/h.s mejicanus Cuvier, Kegue Anim. ed. II, o]4. 1829, Mexico. 

 .Saunis foetens GrxTiiER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mils. V, 396. 18f>4. 

 Si/Hudiis foetens .Iohdax & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Xat. Miis. 28C^, 1883; 



Beax, Bull. r. S. F. C. YII. 148. 1888, 19th Kep. Conun. Fish. X. Y. 



2".. 1S90; .loKiJAX i& EvERMAXx. Bull. 47, U. S. Xfit. Mus. 538. 1896, 



pi. LXXXVIII, fig. 286. 1900. 



Body slender, elonji-ate fnsifoim, ite greatest depih about one 

 seventli of total length without caudal; caudal peduncle short, 

 stout, its least depth equal to length of snout; head conical, 

 sliMTply pointed, its length contained four and one third' times in 

 loial willioiit caudal; snoul much tlattened above, pointed, its 

 length abdut one fourth the length of head, and nearly twice 

 di;iiii('lcr of eye; jaws nearly equal in front or th(^ lower included. 

 maxilla nacliiiig well behind orbit, the ujiper jaw as long as 

 posrorhital part of head; antcrioi' nostril with a tlap, posterior 

 simple, the anterior nearer to eye than to tip of snout; eye .small, 

 jiartly on toj) of head, two elevenths of length of head, about 

 two thirds of interorbital width; teeth of upper jaw closing down 

 oxry the mandible; dorsal origin nearer to tip of snout than to 

 base of caudal, over the ISth scale of the lateral line, dorsal 

 base one half as long as the head, longest dorsal ray equal to 

 iippci- jaw. last dorsal ray one third as long as head; adipose 

 dorsal very small and slender, its length not equal to eye; ventral 

 equidistant from tii) of snout and vent, the fin four fifths as 

 long as the head; pectoral short and rounded, its length equal 

 to snoni and eye combined; anal origin distant from caudal base 

 a space c(iiial to one foinili I he length without caudal, anal base 

 llircc mills as long as the head, longest anal ray one half as 

 long as head wiiliuiu ihe snoul, lasi anal ray one half as long 

 as anal l.ase; caudal deeply forked, Ihe middle rays less than 

 one hair as Idiig as Ihe (Ml I CI- ; iulerorlulal sjiace slightly concave. 

 I. I'. the first two and Die last sim].le; A. 14; A'. 8; P. 14. Scales 

 7 ..!i 7: here described Irom siecimens numbered 35<):^(1, U. S. 

 N.ii ieii;il Miiseiim. from l-'ii-e island. L. 1. 



