92 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



368. Caranx crysos Mitchill. 

 Hardtail: Yellow Mackerel. 

 Marine. 



According to Jones, not uncommon in the waters of Nova Scotia (1879, as Paratractus 

 pisquetus): ranges southward to coast of Brazil: according to Evermann and Marsh 

 "one of the best game-fishes of Porto Rico." 



369. Selene vomer Linnaeus. 

 Moonfish. 



Marine. 



"Specimens are occasionally taken in shore waters" of Nova Scotia (Jones, 1879, as Argy- 

 riosus vomer); and "the young of it is said, in one or two instances, to have been found 

 as far north as Halifax" (Honeyman, ,1886, as S. argentea): ordinarily Atlantic 

 and Pacific* coasts of America "from Cape Cod to Brazil, and from California to 

 Peru": included among the fishes of Porto Rico "on the authority of Poey and Stahl" 

 (Evermann and Marsh, 1899). 



370. Pomatomus saltatrix Linnaeus. 

 Bluefish. 



^Marine. 



"Inserted on the authority of Dr. Bernard Gilpin, who has seen specimens taken on this 



[Nova Scotian] coast" (Jones, 1879): widely distributed: Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 



and occasionally occurring in the Mediterranean. 



371. Brama raii Bloch. 

 Pomfret. 

 Pelagic. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound, southward to Santa Catalina: Grand Banks, New- 

 foundland, and the Bermuda Islands: coasts of Europe, including the British Isles, 

 and northward to the Faroe Islands: also occurs on the coast of Japan. 



372. Atheresthes stomias Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Arrow-toothed Halibut. 



Marine. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California northward to Bering Sea. 



373. Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Walbaum. 

 Greenland Halibut. 



Marine. 



Arctic regions, extending southward to the Grand Banks and to Finland: coasts of Green- 

 land:! Fortune Bay, Newfoundland: recorded from Canso, Nova Scotia (Cornish, 

 1901 or 1902): "occasional specimens are brought us from the northern fishing banks 

 [of Nova Scotia], but it is more common off Newfoundland" (Jones, 1879, as Platy- 

 somatichthys hippoglossoides) . 



*"The Pacific Coast form brevoortii=pacificus l is not evidently different from Selene vomer." Jordan and 

 Evermann. 



j-"It is said to be found chiefly in the ice-fiords and between the great ice fields in Northern Greenland." Jorda 

 and Evermann. 



