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a. Soft dorsal with about 25 rays; depth in adult less than half length. DOESALIS, 1328. 

 aa. Soft dorsal with 21 or 22 rays. 



b. Depth in adult about half length. SETIPINNIS, 1329. 



II. Depth in adult much more than half length. GABONENSIS, 1330. 



1328. VOMER DORSALIS, Gill. 



Depth less than half length of body. D. VII-1, 25 ; A. I, 20. West Indies 

 and west coast of Africa. (Giinther.) A doubtful species, not seen by us. 

 (dorsalis, pertaining to the dorsal, which is longer than in Vomer setipinnis.) 

 Argyreiosus setipinnis, var. B, GUNTHER, Cat., n, 459, 1860, St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands; 



West Indies. 



Vomer dorsalis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 436; after GUNTHER. 

 Vomer senegalensis, GUICHENOT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 1865, 35, Senegal. 

 Vomer goreensis, GUICHENOT, I. c., 37, Gorea. 

 Caranx setipinnis dwsalis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 204. 



1829. VOMER SETIPINNIS (Mitchill). 

 (JOROBADO; MOONFISH; HORSEFISH; BLUNT-NOSED SHINER.) 



Head 3J ; depth 2 in adult, li to If in young. D. VIII-I, 21 or 22; A. 

 11-1,19 or 20; scutes 20. Body oblong, rhombic, less elevated than in 

 Selene vomer; profile anteriorly nearly vertical, highest above the eye, 

 snout somewhat protruding, belly mostly arched in the young; mouth 

 oblique; maxillary reaching vertical from front of orbit. Ventral fins 

 minute ; dorsal and anal very low, especially in the adult, the long rays 

 disappearing very early ; pectorals falcate, about as long as head. Green- 

 ish above, below golden or silvery. Young with a black blotch at origin 

 of straight part of lateral line. Tropical America, on both coasts ; from 

 Maine to Brazil, and Cape San Lucas to Peru; generally common south- 

 ward, the young coming northward in the Gulf Stream ; also in Western 

 Africa, (seta, bristle; pinna, fin.) 



Zeus setipinnis, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 384, New York. 



Vomer browni, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 189, plate 256, 1833, New York 



and "West Indies. 



Argyreiosus setipinnis, GUNTHER, Cat., II, 459, 1860. 

 Vomer setipinnis, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 436; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 440, 



1883; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 204. 

 Selene setipinnis, LUTKEN, Spolia Atlantica, 135, 1880. 

 Platysomus spixii, SWAINSON, Class'n Fishes, n, 1839, 250, 406, Brazil; after SPIX and AGASSIZ, 



pi. 57. 



Platysomus micropteryx, SWAINSON, I.e., 406, Pernambuco. 



Argyreiosus unimacvlatus, BATCHELDER, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 11, 1845, 78, Maine; young. 

 Vomer sanctse-marthse, columbianus, martinicensis, dominicensis, noveboracensis, sanctse-petri, brasiliensis, 

 cayennensis, and cubse, GUICHENOT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 1865, 38 to 44, localities 



indicated by the names. 

 Vomer curtus, COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., 1870, 119, Rhode Island; young. 



1330. VOMER GABONENSIS, Guichenot. 



Depth in adult more than half length. D. VIII-T, 22 ; A. I, 18 or 19. 

 West Indies and we?t coast of Africa (Giinther). A doubtful species, not 

 seen by us. 



