944 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



Trachinotus goodci, JORDAN & EVERMANN, MS., Key West, Florida. (Coll. Jordan. Type, 



No. 1455, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.) 

 Trachynolus carolinus, POEY, Synopsis, 371, 1868; not of other authors. 



1341. TRACHINOTUS ARGENTEUS, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Depth 2 in length in specimens 6 inches long (2^ in original type, a 

 foot long); caudal lobes 3i. D. VI-I, 24; A. II-I, 21, (D. 25; A. 23, in 

 original type). Lobes of dorsal and anal reaching to middle of base of 

 fin. Silvery, with blackish on tip of dorsal lobe and on middle of pec- 

 toral. Atlantic Coast, usually confounded with Trachinotus carolinus, if 

 really distinct from it. According to Dr. Bean, this may be a valid 

 species, allied to Trachinotns caroUnus, but with the body deeper, the 

 depth being half length without caudal. West Indies. We have seen 

 only the original type of argenteus in the museum at Paris, from 

 "America." (argenteus, silvery.) 



Trachinotus argenteus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vin, 413, 1831, New York 



and Rio Janeiro. (Coll. Delalande. Coll. Milbert.) 

 Trachinolm cupreus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I. c., vin, 414, 1831, Martinique. 



(Coll. Plee.) 



1342. TRACHINOTUS CAROLINUS (Linnseus). 

 (COMMON PAMPANO.*) 



Head 4; depth 2i to 2|. D. VI-I, 25; A. II-I, 23. Body oblong, com- 

 paratively robust ; greatest thickness 3 in greatest depth. Snout from 

 mouth to horizontal from upper edge of eye nearly vertical, some- 

 what bluntly rounded ; profile from upper edge of snout to procumbent 

 spine evenly convex. Mouth nearly horizontal, maxillary reaching to 

 vertical from middle of eye, its length 21 in head ; eye 44- in head, about as 

 long as snout. Jaws without teeth in adult. Ventrals reach f distance 

 to vent, about 2 in pectorals, 2 in head. Dorsal and anal fins falcate, 

 anterior rays nearly reaching middle of fins when depressed ; dorsal lobe 

 H in body ; anal 5i in length of body. Color bluish above, silvery or 

 slightly golden below ; pectorals and anal light orange shaded with 

 bluish ; caudal and upper portion of caudal peduncle with bluish reflec- 

 tions. Length 18 inches. South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United 

 States, ranging north to Cape Cod on sandy shores, very common south- 

 ward, rare or accidental in the West Indies and in Brazil. The most 

 valued food-fish in our southern waters, its flesh rich, -firm, and delicate, 

 superior to all others of its genus or family. On the Pacific Coast it is 

 scarcely known as a food-fish, perhaps from its scarcity, (carolinus, from 

 Carolina.) 



Gasterofteus carolinus, LINNJEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. xn, 490, 176G, Carolina. (Coll. Dr. Garden.) 

 ? Trachynotm argentem, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vin, 410, 1831, New York ; 



Rio Janeiro. 



? Trachynolm cupreus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vin, 414, 1831, Martinique. 

 Trachynotm pampanus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vin, 415, 1831, Brazil; 



Charleston. 



Trachynotm carolinm, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 442, 1883. 

 Trachinotus carolinus, MEEK & Goss, I. c., 1884, 127, and of most recent writers. 



* This word (meaning grape leaf) is properly spelled Pampauo. not Pompano. 



