ON THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA. 



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KYPHOSUS SECTATRIX." 



Illustration. Pasre. 



559 1387 



US 



Chub (salt water); "Head 3^; depth 2/ 8 . D. XI, 12; A. 



Rudder-fish ; HI, H ; scales 10-55-16 ; vertebrae 9 + 16. 



Bermuda Chub ; „ . . . . 



„ „ Body ovate, somewhat compressed ; longest 



dorsal spine i the height of body, rather higher 



than soft dorsal and nearly equal to longest ray of anal ; teeth 35 to 



40 on each side ; horizontal process of the teeth not much longer 



than the vertical ; interorbital space 2^ in head; top and sides of 



head finely scaled ; interorbital region gibbous, below which point 



the snout is truncate ; preopercle weakly serrulate ; gill rakers long ; 



soft dorsal and anal very low ; the longest ray of anal 2^ in head, 



longest spine 2^ ; median dorsal spines highest ; second anal spine 



highest ; caudal well forked, the lower lobe longer. Color, in life, 



steel gray, very slightly bluish, not much paler below ; the edges of 



each row of scales on back and sides slightly brassy, so that very faint 



yellowish stripes alternate with bluish ones of about equal width ; a 



diffuse pale stripe below eye, a yellowish one above and below this ; 



fins all dull grayish ; ventrals and anal somewhat blackish ; edge of 



opercle slightly darker. ' ' Weight to 9 pounds ; average, 3 to 4 pounds. 



Caught : Still fishing, bottom, in channels, passes and cuts. Rod 



and reel, 9 to 15 line, 2'i to A c/ hooks. Edible, B. 



n6. 



Sea Trout ; 

 Common Weakfish ; 

 Squeteague. 



CYNOSCION REGALIS." 



562 



1407 



Said to be on the coast, but I have not seen 

 them. 



