,j5(j NEW YORK STATE MUSEfUM 



1*7- Orthopristis chrysopterus (Linnaeus j 



Plgfish; Hogfish 



I'rrrn ohnj^optmi Lixnaeus, Syst. Xat. ed. XII, 4&o, 17(36, Charleston, S. C. 

 Lubnis fulioiiiiieulattts Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 406, 1815, 



New York. 

 J'listipoma fasciatiiin Ct;vier & A^'VLEXCIexnes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 285, 



1830, New York, young; Gxjnther, Cat. Fjsh. Brit. Mus. I. 301, 1859, 



New ( )rleaii.^. 

 JIuvuiulou fiihoDKUiiUititm De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 84, pi. 7, fig. 21, 



1842, New York; Holbrook, Ichth. S. C. 156, pi. 22, fig. 2, 1856. 

 Pristipoma fiilvomaciilatuin Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, 301, 1859, 



copied from Hoi.uhook. 

 Orthopristis diipJc.v Girard, U. S. Mex. Bd. Surv. Zool. Fish. 15, pi. 9, figs. 



1 to 4, 1859, Texas. 

 Pomadusys fHlvomaculatKS Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 36, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 551, 



l.S."^3. 

 Orthopristis rhrimptcnts Beax, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 142, pi. Ill, fig. 11, 



1888; Jordan & Fesler, Kept. U. S. F. C. 499, 1893; Bean, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 366, 1897; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat, 



Mus. 1338, 1898, pi. OCX, fig. 541, 1900. 



Body oblong-, compressed, not much elevated. The depth of 

 the body is one third of the length, which is three and one third 

 times the length of the head; head long; snout conic; mouth 

 low and small, the maxillary barely reaching to the nostrils; 

 outer teeth slender and rather short; eye placed high, 4| in 

 head, nearly midway in its length, its diameter two thirds depth 

 nl' the Itroad preorbital; dorsal and anal entirely naked, with a 

 sheath of scales at base; anterior spines of dorsal higher than 

 the ]K.siiii(>r, which are lower than the soft rays; anal spines 

 sjinii. uiaduated; pectoial moderate, reaching past tips of ven- 

 irals; raiida! foikcd. tjie upper lobe the longer. Length 1 foot 

 lo 1." iiiclics. 



' * "^ ' ' "' ; A . III. 1 L* ; La t. 1 , 75 ; pyloric caeca six. 



Liglii Imowii, silvery below; sides with numerous orange 

 <"loi-.il and yell(M\ spots; those above the lateral line in oblique 

 sf-n.s. ihosr lnl(.\\ ill horizontal; veitical fins with similar spots; 

 '"'"' ''I'li^'i \viili ,vril,,\\ spots; angle of mouth and gill mem- 

 Itiaiics wit li oraiitic 



'rii' I'iglish i;iii-rs along th<> Atlantic coast from New York 

 soiiiliward: adnli iii(ii\idnals are raicly seen even as far north 

 as .\.\\ .Icrsiv. I. lit thr young are common. 



