120 LÖNNBERG, LIST OF FISHES OBSERVED IN SOUTH-FLORIDA. 



Mugil albula LiNNÉ. »Mullet». Extremely abundant alotig 

 the gulfcoast and the most iniportant foodfish in tliat region. 

 It is common at the eastcoast too, for instance at New Smyrna 

 ränning up into Hillsboro river, i) But it is not only in salt 

 water it is to be found. It wanders up far above the tide water 

 in streams and rivers. In St. Johns river they are common and 

 so far from the sea as in Lake Jessup I have seen hundi"eds 

 and hundreds skipping. 



Mugil brasiliensis Agassiz. »Silver mullet». Not so large 

 and not so abundant as the former at the Gulfcoast and at 

 Key "West. 



Atherina veliana GOODE & Bean. This little fish was 

 called »Hardhead» at Key West. I only obtaiued one specimen 

 there, altough I saw a good many of them. 



Menidia peninsulce GoODE & Bean. This fish was abundant 

 round the wharf at Punta Gorda, Charlotte Harbor. It was 

 called »Silverside» by the boys that used it for bait. The num- 

 ber of spines in first dorsal is very variable as most of my 

 specimens have four, some six and, a few five. Some have 16 

 soft rays in the anal fin but most specimens have 15. It is 

 striking that the number of spines is so very little constant in 

 Atherinidee (conf. Labidesthes!). 



At Key West too it is abundant following the tidewater 

 in the bayous. 



Labidesthes sicculus COPE. I found this beautiful, little 

 fish at first in Lake Ivanhoe near Orlando afterwards in other 

 lakes of the same system and in creeks connecting them but 

 even in single lakes in the pineland east of Orlando and in 

 other places. 



The first specimens I obtained had more spines and i'ays 

 in the fins than this species ought to have viz. dorsal V — ], 

 12 and sometimes VI— I, 12; anal I, 24. The color is very fine 

 in life. The back greenish with a median dorsal band of small 

 black spöts, such a band from caudal to vent too. The silvery 



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