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I.v il,.' absence of canines in the lower jaw. All of them rank 

 l.iiil, :,s foo.l fishes; the flesh is rich, but in some species tender 

 ;,ii<| .asily KMii. hence Ihc jx^iMihu- name weakfishes. 



Subgenus cyivoscioa 



12TS Cynoscion regalis (IJloch & Schneider) 



Weakfish; Squeteague 



Johnius nvalis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Iclith. 75, 1801, New York. 



norcns Cowrs Mrrciixi.L, Rep. Fish. N. Y. 26, 1814, New York. 



Lobru.s ,(,rtrafnie MiTcuu.U Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I. ?.0r.. i.l. 2, 



tin. (). 1815, New Y^ork. ^ 



oiolilhiis rci/alix Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Y, 67. lbU; 



r>K Kay. N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 71. pi. 8, fig. 24, 1842; Gunther. Cat. 



Fisli. Brit. Mus. II. ;^.07. 1860. 

 i;n,o-ion remilc Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18, 1862; Jordan & Gtl- 



itERT. Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 581. 1883; Bean, Bull. U. S'. F. C. 



VII. 14(>. 1>1. 11, fi.i;-. 6. 18.S,S: imii Itcp. Comui. Fish. N, Y. 257, pi. NIII. 



li^'. 15, IS'.Mt. 

 fjiiiusrioii iTfKtlis (JooDE & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst. XI, 17. 1S79, Cape 



Ann; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, .367, 18U7; Jordan & Eyek- 



mann. Bull. 47. F. S. Nat. Mus. 1407. 1898, pi. CCXX, fig. 562. 1900: 

 11. M. SMini. Bull. V. S. F. C. 1897, lUl. 1898; Bean, .52d Ann. Rep. 



\. V. State :^Ius. 106, 1900; Sherwood & Etiwards. Bull. U. S. F. C. 



P.MIl. 29, 1901. 



r.cMJ.v iluiiiiatc. lit He t(nupressed. its greatest depth contained 

 r.nr .11.(1 one fourth times in the total length without caudal; 

 Ihr least dejMh of caudal peduncle one third length of heai, 

 whi. h is three tenths of total length without caudal. Eye 

 niod.-rai.-. tiirce fourtlis lougth of snout, and one fifth to one 

 srv. mil Iciiiiiii of liea<l. :Maxillar.v reaching to below hind mar- 

 gin ut eye. its longth nearly two fifths length of head. Teeth 

 sharp, in narr(.\\ bands; canines large. Gill rakers long and 

 sharp, .". above and 11 below the angle of the first arch. The 

 sccoimI and longest dorsal spine is two fifths as long as tho head; 

 the first spine is one third as long as the head; the last two 

 spines are very short ; tlie longest soft ray of the dorsal is one 

 third as lung as Hie Ik ad. Caudal lunate behind, the longest 

 rays eipial to Hie head witlidul t lu^ snout. The anal base is as 

 loiiir as the snnnt and eyi^ cond>ined; the longest ray slightly 

 e\, leds t he base of t lie i\u. PiMMoral about equal to postorbital 

 I'aii <>r 1 1 :ind alunil one sixth of tnial length \vitho\i1 caudal. 



