Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 



The young of tins species has not yet been described. Length 13 inches. 

 Tropical America, from Virginia to the Caribbean Sea, generally common 

 from Carolina to Florida; a very handsome fish, not highly valued. 

 (glaiicus, -y^avKos, hoary blue.) 



Chietodon glaucus, BLOCK, Ichthyol., pi. 210, 1787, Martinique ; on a figure by PLTIMIKH. 

 Trachin<>ti<x,jl<n<cux, CrviEit \- .VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vm,400, 1831; JORDAN &GILBEIIT, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 270, 1882; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 443, 1883; MEEK & Goss, Proc. 



Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila... 122, 1884. 

 Trachynotut ijlauaia, Gt'NTUER, Cat., n, 483, 1860; GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 438, 1862. 



1336. TRACHINOTUS RHODOPUS, Gill. 

 (PAMPANITO.) 



Head 3^ ; depth 2. D. VI-I, 20 ; A. II-I, 18. Body more elevated than 

 in Trackinotus gl*ucus, the snout lower and the anterior profile much 

 more straight ; mouth rather large, oblique, the jaws nearly equal ; the 

 snout low, somewhat prominent. Anterior rays of dorsal and anal much 

 produced, reaching nearly to middle of caudal in the adult, short in the 

 young; caudal deeply forked, its lobes 2| in body. Ventrals short, not 

 reaching vent. Bluish green above, silvery below ; sides with 5 short, 

 narrow, vertical, blackish stripes, the first two nearer together than the 

 others, the last two sometimes reduced to spots ; these bands always 

 faint, obsolete in the young, in which the vertical fins are also much 

 lower ; caudal, dorsal, and anal lobes largely of a bright maroon color, 

 or orange brown in life, the anterior edge blackish, shading off into 

 pinkish, this color present at all ages. Pacific Coast of tropical 

 America to Panama ; very common on sandy shores, replacing TracMnotm 

 glaucus, which it much resembles. The difference in profile is constant and 

 characteristic. Not much valued as food. Length 2 feet. (/3ocJ6f, rose-col- 

 ored; TTOi'f, foot.) 



Trachynotus rhodopus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 85, Cape San Lucas; (Coll. 



Xantus); young, 2 inches long. 

 f Trachynolus naxutHs, GILL, 1. c., 1863, 85, Cape San Lucas; (Coll. Xantus); young of 1 inch, 



possibly young of T. Kennedy i. 

 Trachynotus fasciatus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 86, Panama; GUNTHER, Fish. Centr. 



Amer., 434, 1869; MEEK & Goss, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1884, 123. 

 Trachynolus glancoides, GUNTHER, Proc. Zob'l. Soc. Lond., 1864, 150, San Jose de Guatemala. 



1337. TRACHINOTUS FALCATUS* (Linnaeus). 

 (ROUND PAMPANO; PALOMETA/) 



Head 3f; depth If. D. VI-I, 19; A. II-I, 18. Body broadly ovate, 

 moderately compressed, profile very evenly convex from procumbent spine 

 to level of upper edge of eye, where it descends almost vertically. The 

 vertical portion is about H times the eye; length of snout nearly equal 

 to eye ; mouth nearly horizontal ; maxillary reaching to vertical from 

 middle of eye, its length 2f in head; jaws without teeth in adult; dorsal 



* Should Trachinolm falcatus prove to be identical with the East Indian T. ovatus, as several 

 writers have supposed, the American name, falcatus, has precedence of date. 



