Jordan and Rvcrmann. Fishes of North America. 921 



sauthn)>i/iji<x, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poise., ix, 109, 1833, Isle de France. 



r,i,;t,i.f. ckaltt, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 117, 1833, Vizagapatam; after 

 /:/,-<(/ parah, of RUSSKLL. 



<';ir<iii.r(iniill,iriim, BENNF.TT, Whaling Voyage, n, 282, 1840, West Indies. 



('<i,;u,.r ,/,/,, /sor, DElvAY, N. Y. Faiina: Fishes, 120, 1842, New York; HOLBROOK, Ichth. Soulli 

 Carolina, 87, 18GO. 



Caraiuju* '*, v/-//^*, GIRARD, U. S. Mcx. Round. Surv., 23, pi. xi, figs. 1-3, 1859, Brazos San- 

 tiago, Texas. (Coll. \ViinU>mami.) 



Cat-angm chr>t*ns, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 434, 18G2; young. 



Carati.r can in s, Gi'xTHKK, Fish. Centr. Amor., 4:!2, 18<;9, Panama. 



r,o-ifi/;//is ////./'"*, ft ILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 433, and olsmvhere; POKY, Enumeratio, 

 7-,, 1875. 



Car,,.>- hijipus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mils., 1882, 2G9; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 

 437; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 200. 



Subgenus PARATRACTUS, Gill. 



1314. CARANX CRYSOS (Mitchill). 



(HARD TAIL; RUNNER; JUREL ; YELLOW MACKEREL; CRKVALLE.) 



Head 3i; depth 3. D. VIII-I, 24; A. II-I, 19; lateral line 50 (scutes). 

 Body oblong, moderately elevated, the dorsal and ventral outlines about 

 equally arched. Profile forming a uniform curve. Snout rather sharp. 

 Mouth slightly oblique, a little below axis of body. Maxillary reaching 

 about to middle of orbit. Teeth comparatively large ; a single series in 

 lower jaw ; upper jaw with an inner series of smaller teeth ; no canines; 

 teeth on vomer, palatines, and tongue. Eye rather small, shorter than 

 snout, 3 in head. Gill rakers long and numerous. Pectoral as long as 

 head, barely reaching anal ; rarely longer than head in certain specimens 

 from Key West, possibly referable to C. caballus. Scales moderate; cheeks 

 and breast scaly. Lateral line with a weak arch anteriorly, which is 

 about half length of straight portion. Lateral scutes numerous, devel- 

 oped on whole straight part of lateral line. Greenish olive, golden 

 yellow or silvery below ; a black blotch on opercle; fins all pale. Length 

 1 foot or more. Cape Cod to Brazil ; generally abundant, common farther 

 north than any of the other species of Caranx ; a well-known food-fish 

 rarely exceeding a foot in length, not found in the Pacific, where it is 

 replaced by Caranx caballus. (xpvabs, gold.) 



Scomber cn/sos, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 1815, 424, New York. 

 Cnran.r pi^itetHs, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 97, 1833, San Domingo, Cuba, 



and Brazil; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 435, 1883. 

 Tr<H'hnri<ii .si/iKM/KwiHs, GIIONOW, Cat. Fishes, Ed. Gray, 125, 1854, Carolina. 

 (fcrtMa ,, ? /M,.V, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 121, 1842; GUNTIIER, Cat., n, 445, 1860. 

 P.mdrxrhtspt^im-hi.^ GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18G2, 432; POEY, Synopsis, 33H, iSfifi. 

 dm, H..- f///-//.si>, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 190; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synop- 

 sis, 970, 1883. 



1315. CARANX CABALLUS (Giinther). 



(COCINERO ; COCINERO DORADO J JUREL.) 



Head 4 ; depth 3*. D. VIII-I, 24 (22 to 24) ; A. II-I, 21 (20 or 21) ; lat- 

 eral line 41 (developed scutes). Pectoral usually longer and scutes fewer 

 than in Caranx erysoa. Form of C. crysos; rather elongate, not greatly 



