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1322. GNATHANODON SPECIOSUS (Forskal). 



(MOJARRA DORADA.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2i to 2. Second D. I, 20 ; A. I, 16; scutes weak, about 

 15. Teeth very minute, disappearing early ; none on voiner or palatines; 

 cheeks scaly ; breast entirely scaly. Curve of lateral line H in straight 

 part. Body broadly ovate, strongly compressed ; vertical fins somewhat 

 falcate ; the lobe of the soft dorsal about half head ; pectoral falcate, g 

 longer than head. Gill rakers numerous, long, about 20 below angle. 

 Color brilliant golden, with 6 broad, dusky cross bands, a narrow stripe 

 between each pair of broad ones; opercular spot obsolete, a small black 

 axillary spot ; caudal lobes with dusky inner edge ; no dark spots on 

 caudal in young or old. Length 2 feet. Tropical parts of the Pacific 

 and Indian oceans, Cape San Lucas to the Red Sea ; on sandy shores ; an 

 excellent and valued food-fish. The three dark blotches on the caudal 

 fin described and figured by authors as characteristic of G. speciosus are 

 not found in our specimens, (speciosus, beautiful.) 



Scomber speciosus, FORSAL, Descr. Anim., 1775, xu, Red Sea, at Djidda, Arabia. 



Scomber rim, FoRsnAL, I. c., 1775, 54, Djidda. 



Caranx poloosoo, RICHARDSON, Voy. Erebus & Terror, Ichth., pi. 58, fig. 4 and 5, 1844; called 



Caranx speciosus in text; Australia. 

 Caranx speciosus, GUNTHER, Cat., u, 444, 1860; GUNTHER, Fish. Centr. Amer., 431, 1869; JORDAN 



& GILKEBT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 375; ibid, 1883, 202 

 Caranx, panamensis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 160, Panama. 



421. CARANGOIDES, Bleeker. 



Carangoirles, BLEEKER, Batav. Genootsch. Verb., xxiv, Makreele, 1851, (plagiotsenia; teeth equal 

 several series in both jaws and on palate and tongue). 



Teeth persistent, all small, in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, pala- 

 tines, and tongue. Lateral line scarcely arched in front. Body oblong, 

 not much elevated ; none of the dorsal rays produced. Otherwise essen- 

 tially as in Caranx. Tropical seas. (Caranx', eidos, likeness.) 



1323. CARANGOIDES ORTHOGRAMMUS (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 2|; depth 3; eye large, broader than preorbital, its diameter 1 

 in length of snout, 4f in head. Second D. I, 32; A. I, 26; scutes 17. 

 Body elliptical, compressed, the back regularly but not strongly arched, 

 the ventral outline forming a rather even but less convex curve. Head 

 longer than deep, rather pointed in profile, its median ridge somewhat 

 elevated. Mouth low, oblique, the maxillary extending to nearly oppo- 

 site front of pupil, its length 2$- in head ; lower jaw slightly projecting. 

 Teeth all equally minute, in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, palatines, 

 and tongue. Adipose eyelid little developed. Cheeks and temporal 

 region with fine scales ; rest of head naked. Scales rather small, those 

 below pectorals smaller; a naked area on breast, becoming wider for- 

 ward from base of ventrals. Lateral line almost straight, slightly 

 undulated and curved upward above pectorals, becoming straight by 



