THE FISHES OF SAMOA. 



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, 18; eye 3 in head; snout 2.75; niaxil- 

 along straight portion of lateral line, 



451. Caranx plumbeus ( Quoy & Gaimard). Lupo; Lupo ta; Ldlufntu; Airilnfntii. He de France; 

 Samoa. 



Head .3.25 in length; depth 2.18; dorsal vi-i, 22; anal ii- 

 lary 2.18, extending to below anterior margin of eye; 43 plate 

 the curved portion a third longer than the straight. 



Body oblong, compressed; profile of head gibbous and keeled; anterior dorsal and anal rays elon- 

 gate (male fishes have 9 and 10 dorsal rays and 7 and 8 anal rays elongate), the first dorsal ray being 

 greater than dt']ith of fish, 2 in length. The first anal ray is 2.75 in length; base of anal about equal 

 to jM-rtoial. wlii' h is 2.75 in length of fish; base of dorsal 2.20 in length; caudal deeply forked, the 

 lol«- -ii_'liil\ liin-er than head; ventrals 2 in head; opercle with small rounded nick on upper margin; 

 scale- Mt lin.ly Miiall, about 100 in curved portion of lateral line; thorax naked; cheek scaled and upper 

 part of opercle scaled; bands of minute teeth in jaws, vomer, palatines and middle of tongue; a nar- 

 row adi[)ose eyelid; preorbital less than width of eye; mouth large, lower jaw slightly the longer; gill- 

 rakers strong, two-thirds length of eye, 16 on lower limb. 



Color in spirits silvery bronze, the scales with beautiful iridescence, slightly darker above, .-ome 

 specimens showing slight indications of five or six wide vertical brown bands on upper half of body; 

 a black opercular spot; a large black spot in axil of pectoral, extending on its upper base; cheek more 

 or less blotched with golden; an indistinct dusky blotch on upper part of preopercle between the 

 black opercular spot and eye; spines of dorsal dusky; margin of dorsal and its elongate filaments 

 dusky; caudal with indistinct dusky margin; pectoral, ventral, and anal yellowish white, the anal 

 showing a slight dusky wa.sh on webs. 



A specimen from Apia in life was silver-green, bluish below; axil black; opercular spot faint olive; 

 caudal dull yellow; anal and ventral whitish, slightly olive-tinged. Dorsal and anal with one filament 

 only. In others of the same species, males, there are numerous filamentous rays on the dorsal ami 

 anal fins. • 



This species belongs to the subgenus VituUi. We have 5 specimens, 4 male and 

 the seine at Apia and Pago Pago. The description is that of a male 12.50 inches loi 



B.B.F. 1905—16 



female, tak< 



