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" Glossodus. Cuvier, in Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Bras., 48, 1829 

 {forskala-vulpes) . 



" Characters of the genus included above. (Latin albus, white.)" 



"672. ALBULA VULPES. (Linnaeus.)" 



"(Lady-fish; Bone-fish ; Macabi ; Sanducha ; Banana-fish.)" 

 The illustration is of the Bone-fish of Biscayne Bay and the Keys. 

 Same work, pages 411, 412. 



"Head, 3->< ; depth, 4. D. 15 ; A. 8 ; scales, 9-71-7. Upper 

 lobe of caudal the longer. A broad band of peculiar, elongate, membra- 

 naceous scales along middle line of back ; accessory ventral scale large. 

 Brilliantly silvery ; olivaceous above ; back and sides with faint streaks 

 along the rows of scales ; fins plain ; axils dusky. Length, 18 inches 

 to 3 feet. Tropical seas, on sandy coasts, almost universally distributed 

 and generally abundant, ranging northward on our coasts to San Diego 

 and Long Island. A beautiful and active fish, in most places little 

 valued as food ; but in some regions, as Key West, highly appreciated. ' ' 

 ( Vulpes, fox. ) 



" Unbarana. Marograve, Hist. Bras, 1648, Brazil. 



" Vulpes bahamensis (the Bone-fish). Catesby, Nat. Hist. 



" Carolinas, etc., pi. 11, fig. I, 1737, Bahamas. 



" Esox vulpes. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 313, Bahamas ; 

 based on the Bone-fish, Vulpes baliamensis, of Catesby. 



" Argentina glossodonta. Forskal, Descr. Anim., 68, 1775, 

 Djidda, Arabia. 



"Macabi. Parra, Dif. PiezasCuba, 88, pi. 35, fig. I, 1787, Cuba; 

 based on Unbarana of Marcgrave. 



" Sy nodus argenteus. Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icth., 398, 1801, 

 Asia. 



" Clupea brasiliensis. Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icth, 427, 1801, 

 Brazil. 



" Albula conorynchus. Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icth., 432, 

 1801, Antilles; after Gronow and Plumier ; called Albula plumieri on 

 plate 86. 



" Amia immaculata. Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icth., 451, 1801, 

 Central America ; after Macabi of Parra. 



Butyrinus banana. Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 46, 1803, 

 Isle de France. 



