Round Pampano; Indian River Permit 



It reaches a length of 2 feet, but is not much valued as food. 

 It may be known from T. glaucus by the difference in profile, 

 the snout being low and very oblique. 



Colour, bluish-green above, silvery below; side with 5 short, 

 narrow, vertical blackish bars, the first 2 nearer together than 

 the others, the last 2 sometimes reduced to spots, these bands 

 always faint in young in which the vertical fins are also much lower; 

 caudal, dorsal, and anal lobes largely of a bright maroon colour, 

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

 pinkish, this colour present at all ages. 



Round Pampano; Indian River Permit 



Trachinotus falcatus (Linnaeus) 



The Round Pampano is found from Cape Cod to Florida, along 

 the coast. It is common southward but occurs northward only in 

 the Gulf Stream 



It reaches a foot or more in length and a weight of 3 

 pounds, and is a good food-fish. It may be known from the 

 old wife and the pampanito by the absence of dark vertical bars. 



Colour, bluish above, silvery below; lobe of dorsal black in 

 young; fins in adult all bluish with lighter tips. 



Trachinotus rhomboides, the West Indian round pompano, 

 occurs among the West Indies and southward. It seems to differ 

 from T. falcatus in the higher vertical fins. 



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