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North American Fishes 



III. ntte Striped Mokarra (Gerres embryx) 

 R, W. SHUFELDT, M. D., C. M. Z. S. 



Striped Moharra 



Gerres embrvx 



Insofar as I am aware, the fish here to 

 he described has not yet been figured, nor 

 does it appear to have received a ver- 

 nacular name. This being the case, I pro- 

 pose to call it the Striped Moharra 

 (Gerres embryx), Jordan and Starks. Its 

 characters are presented in some detail 

 in the "Fishes of North and Middle 

 America" by Jordan and Evermann in 

 Part II, p. 1379, where it is described as 

 a "new species."' This fish sometimes 

 occurs in the fish markets of Washing- 

 ton, where it is called the "Silver Perch," 

 and it was from a specimen obtained there 

 that I made the negative from which the 

 cut here presented was made. Its spe- 



cific name embryx is from two Greek 

 words meaning in the ocean depths, and 

 Jordan and Evermann say of it "length 

 about a foot. Coast of South Carolina, in 

 rather deep water, in company with Cal- 

 amus leucosteus, Ccntropristes philadel- 

 phicus, Larimus faciatits, and Stellifer 

 lanceolatus. Here described from a speci- 

 men (No. 449. L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. ) 12 

 inches long, taken at Charleston, by Mr. 

 Charles C. Leslie." (p. 1379.) Of these 

 authors the family Gerridaes ( No. C LI 

 I I) contained the Mojarras and Mcjarri- 

 tas, with fishes bearing several other 

 names. 



The (7 err idea stand between the fami- 



