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NEW YORK STATE MUSEiUM 



MEASUREMENTS 



Inches 



Length, including caudal 331^ 



Lengtli to end of middle caudal rays 30 1/^ 



Length of external caudal lobes from pit 7 



Length of middle caudal raj^s 2 



Greatest depth of body 6 % 



Least depth of caudal peduncle ly^. 



Greatest thickness of body ' 4 



Length of head 8 



Length of upper jaw 3 1^ 



Width across end of maxilla I14. 



Length of mandible 4% 



Length of snout 2% 



Diameter of eye I14 



Diameter of pupil % 



Distance from snout to vertical from first dorsal origin 10i/4 



Length of first dorsal base 3% 



Length of first spine % 



Length of second spine 1^4 



Length of third (longest) spine 1% 



Length of seventh spine ^ 



Distance from snout to second dorsal (obliquely) 34% 



Length of second dorsal base 11% 



Length of second ray of second dorsal 3% 



Length of first ray 1 % 



Length of last ray 1% 



Length of pectoral 3% 



Length of ventral 4 % 



Distance from ventral origin to anal origin 10% 



Distance from vent to anal origin 2 



The amber jack here mentioned is supposed to be identical 

 with the S. lalandi of Cuvier & Valenciennes, a species 

 ranging regularly from Brazil to West Florida and occasionally 

 northward in summer to Cape Cod. It grows to the length of 

 5 or 6 feet and the weight of 100 pounds, and it is a good food 

 fish as well as a robust and vigorous prize for the angler. 



Genus elagatis Bennett 

 Body long and slender; second dorsal and anal long, each with 

 one detached finlet composed of two rays behind the rest of the 

 fin. Otherwise essentially as in S e r i o 1 a . The short spines 

 preceding the anal fin are somewhat remote from the rest of 

 the fin. Branchiostegals 7; lateral line not armed; villiform 

 teeth in bands in the jaw, on the vomer and the palatines. 



