Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 111'.) 



breast scaly ; scaly sheath of fins little developed. Bluish ; sides golden ; 

 a very small, black opercular spot and a black axillary spot ; young some- 

 times with faint cross bands; fins all deep golden, especially the anal; 

 dorsal and caudal broadly margined with black, the color covering most 

 of iin ; no spot on pectoral. Pacific Coast of Mexico ; rather common 

 at Mazatlan ; recorded from Mazatlan and Panama ; long confounded 

 with Caranjr latus, which lives in the same waters* Caranx marginatus is 

 readily known by the slenderer form, dark colors, and larger eye. (mar- 

 (/ in (it us, edged.) 

 Cco-anx marginaliis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 166, Panama. (Coll. Capt. Dow.) 



1317. CARANX LATUS, Agassiz. 



(JUREL ; XUREL ; HOHSE-EYE JACK.) 



Head 3| ; depth 2*. D. VIII-I, 22 ; A. II-I, 16 to 18 ; lateral line with 

 35 scutes. Form of Caranx hippos, but the profile not so strongly arched. 

 Teeth much as in C. hippos, the canines considerably weaker. Gill rakers 

 rather long, about 12 below angle. Breast scaly. Scutes present on 

 whole of straight part of lateral line; arched part of lateral line H in 

 straight part ; an abrupt angle at junction of the two parts, which is 

 under third dorsal ray. Pectoral about as long as head ; maxillary reach; 

 ing posterior edge of pupil ; cheek and upper parts of opercles scaly - 

 scaly sheaths of fins little developed. Bluish ; sides golden or silvery; a 

 very small, black opercular spot ; young sometimes with faint dark cross 

 bands; fins mostly grayish. Anterior part of soft dorsal fin dusky; 

 caudal yellow, without black; no spot on pectorals; no axillary spot. 

 West Indies and all warm seas, occasionally north to Virginia ; very 

 abundant southward ; not so common northward as Caranx hippos. 

 Equally abundant on the west coast of Mexico ; our specimens from 

 Panama, Clarion Island, and Chatham Island apparently not different 

 from West Indian examples. Also common in the East Indies, if Caranx 

 heberi is the same, as we suppose. The flesh is sometimes poisonous in 

 the tropics, giving rise to the disease called Ciguatera. (latus, broad.) 



Caranx lalus, AGASSIZ, Pise. Bras., 105, 1829, Brazil ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1883, 200. 



Caranx leptnnis, AGASSIZ, Pise. Bras., 106,1829, Brazil ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 447. 

 Scomber heleri, BENNETT, Fishes Ceylon, pi. 26, 1830, Ceylon. 

 Caranx fallax, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 95, 1833, Antilles; Brazil ; 



POEY, Repertorio, 328, 1875; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 437, 1883. 

 Carangns fallax, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 433, and elsewhere; POKY, Synopsis, 364, 



1868. 



Caranx sem, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Kat. Poiss., ix, 105, 1833, Pondicherry. 

 Caranx forsteri, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 107, 1833, East Indies. 

 CbnMCE pertmi, < VVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 112, 1833, East Indies. 

 Caranx lesson i, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 113, 1833, Malabar. 

 C<trn.i- Jielengeri, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 116, 1833, Malabar. 

 ('<n-nn.r iti-<txinst<-x, RICHARDSON, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 136, 1844, Port Essington. 

 Caranx Itipp,-*, GUNTHER, Cat., n, 449, 1860, not Scomber liipposli.- G('VTHER, Fishes Ontr. Amer., 



431, 1869; DAY, Fishes of Malabar, 86, 1865; GUNTHER, Fist-he dor Siidsee, 131, fig. 84, 1876. 

 C.ir, ins ricliardi, Hoi.BROOK, Ichthyol. South Carolina, 96, pi. 13, fig. 1, 1860, South Carolina. 

 <'<trn.r <i,m-u*,* POEY, Enumeratio, 76, 1875, Cuba. 



* Caranx aureits, Poey. Brilliant yellow; silvery below; ventrals straw color; anal yellow; tip 

 of second dorsal and caudal lolies greenish. Length 10 inches. Seen in Cuba alter north 

 winds iu winter. Said to differ from Curanx loins only in color. (Poey.) 



