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Family cara.ngid^2>.i3 



Crevalles 

 Genus ol,igopl,ites Gill 

 Holly compressed, oblong or lanceolate; caudal peduncle slen- 

 der, not keeled; Iiead short, compressed, acute, occipital keel 

 sliarji; iiioulli ratlier large, with small, sharp teeth in bands on 

 jaws, tongue, vomer and palatines, none on the pterygoids; 

 jaws altoni ((jual, ihe ui)per not protractile, except in the very 

 joung, ill which it is movable as in other Carangidae; maxillary 

 very narrow, without distinct supplemental bone; gill rakers 

 rather long; scales small, linear, and extremely narrow, em- 

 bedded in the skin at different angles; lateral line unarmed; 

 dorsal spines rather strong, three to five in number, nearly free 

 in the adult; second dorsal very long, its posterior rays penicil- 

 lated and nearly or quite disconnected, forming tinlets; anal 

 rather longer than soft dorsal, much longer than the abdomen, 

 its last rays forming similar finlets, anal spines strong; ventral 

 tins (leiiressible in a groove; pectoral fins very short. Species 

 few. in the tropical seas of America. (After Jordan and Ever- 

 nianu) 



L'or) Oligoplites saurus (Bloch & Schneider) 



Leather Jacket 



iirmnhrr Kiiitvu>< Block & Schneider, Syst. Iclitli. 321, 1801, Jamaica. 

 Chorinvmus ocrhlentolis GxJntiier, Cat. Fislj. Brit. Mus. II, 475. 18G{); not 



(lastcroNtnts orriflciitnlis LmxAErs, Syst. Nat. ed. XII. I. 490. 

 (Hiuniililcs occUlviihilix (Jill, Froc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 166, 1863. 

 i^cmihroiddi occiilnihilis .Toudan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 447, 



I8s:>,. 



OiiiiiiiiliUs muni)i .ioituAx & Gilbert, op. cit. 973, 1883; Jordan & Ever- 

 MANN, Bull, 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 898, 1896, pi. CXXXVIII, fig. 378, 

 I'.ioo; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 360, 1897; Smith, Bull, 

 r. S. F. ('. XVtI. !t7, 1898. 



J'.ody elongate, much compressed, fusiform, its greatest hight 

 contained H,,-,.,- .md two thiids times in total length without 

 <;""'l;"l I I liiii's in total to end of middle caudal rays), its width 

 1w(. sevenths of its hight and two flfllis of length of head; least 

 ^I'l'ili <.r c;in,lal pediiii,!,. e(|nals lenglh of eye; head short, one 

 '''''' "I' i-'i:!! wiilKMit candal. lis width t hrcH' sevenths of its 

 len-ili; sn.Mii ni...|ri;i i ,.|y p(.inir,|. its length about equal to orbit 



