152 PISCES. 



There is a species whose last dorsal and anal ray is detached, 

 Seriola bipinnulata, Cuv.j Zool. de Freycin., pi. 61, f. 3. 



NoMEUs, Cuv. 



These fishes, which for a long time were placed among the Go- 

 bies, are related in many particulars to the Seriolae, but their ex- 

 tremely large and broad ventrals, attached to the belly by their 

 internal edge, give them a very peculiar character. 



Nom. mauritii, Cuv.; the Harder^ Marcgr., l53. A species 



from the American seas; silvery, with transverse black bands 



on the back.(l) 



Temnodon, Cuv. 



The tail unarmed; the small fin, or free spines before the anal, of 

 the Seriolse; the first dorsal is very slight and low, the second and 

 the anal covered with small scales; but their principal character 

 consists in a range of separate, pointed and trenchant teeth in each 

 jaw; behind these, above, is a row of small ones, and the vomer, 

 palatines and tongue are furnished with others, very small and 

 crowded. The operculum terminates in two points, and there are 

 seven rays in the branchiae, f, 



Tern, saltator, Cuv. The only well known species; it is about 



the size of a Mackerel, and one of the small number of fishes 



common to both oceans,(2) 



Caranx, Cuv. 



Scomberoides characterized by a lateral line more or less mailed 

 with scaly plates or bands, carinated and frequently spinous. They 

 have two distinct dorsals, a horizontal spine before the first; the 



(1) It is the Gobius Gronovii, Gmel., the Gobiomare Gronovien, Lacep., the Eleo- 

 tris mauritii, Bl., Schn., and the Scomber zonatus, Mitch. Ann. Op. cit. J, iv, 3, — 

 it attains the size of a Salmon. The other, Harder of Marcgr., Braz., 166, appears to 

 be a Mugil. 



Harder or Herder, (Shepherd) is a name applied by Dutch sailors to various fishes 

 for reasons similar to those which have induced European mariners to call the 

 Naucrates, Pilot-fish, &c. It is even possible that from the resemblance of the 

 black bands, our Nomeus may have been confounded with it. 



(2) AVe possess specimens which scarcely differ from each other, from Alexan- 

 dria, the United States, Brazil, Cape of Good Hope, and New Holland. It is the 

 Cheilodiptere leptacanthe, Lacep., Ill, xxi, 3, copied from Commerson, and his Poma- 

 iome skib, IV, viii, 3, from Bosc. It is also the Perca saltatrix, L.; Catesb., II, viii, 

 2, or Spare sauteur, Lacep. Add, Perca untardica, Carmich., Lin. Trans. XII, xxv? 



