New Records of Marine Fishes from the Carolinas, 

 With Notes on Additional Species 



Steve W. Ross 



North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, 



P.O. Box 769, Morehead City, North Carolina 28557 



Garnett W. Link, Jr. 



University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences, 



Morehead City, North Carolina 28557 



AND 



Kerry A. MacPherson 



Brunswick Biological Laboratory, 



Carolina Power & Light Company, Southport, North Carolina 28461 



ABSTRACT. — The distributional status of fifteen marine fishes from 

 Carolina waters is discussed. Eleven are new records to the area, the 

 remainder being species previously or presently considered rare. The 

 second collected specimen of Daramattus americanus and the first 

 from the Carolinas is reported and illustrated. New maximum size 

 records are established for Paraconger caudilimbatus, Lepophidium 

 jeannae, and Hemanthias leptus. Some reproductive data are included 

 for Prionotus stearnsi. 



Biological sampling in North and South Carolina marine waters 

 continues to yield fishes new to or once considered rare in the area (e.g., 

 Graffe 1972; Ross and Fast 1977; Anderson et al. 1979; Burgess et al. 

 1979; Bbhlke and Ross 1981). Most of the species recently reported 

 from the Carolinas occurred in reef areas and had tropical affinities 

 (Anderson and Gutherz 1964; Ross and Fast 1977; Anderson et al. 

 1979). The fishes in this report represent a mixture of zoogeographic 

 affinities and habitat associations. Eleven of the fifteen species reported 

 are new records to this area and the remainder are species presently or 

 previously considered rare. 



Specimens were collected by trawl, hook and line, gill net, seine, 

 and by sampling the traveling screens of Carolina Power & Light Com- 

 pany's Brunswick Steam Electric Plant (BSEP) on the lower Cape Fear 

 River at Southport, North Carolina. Standard lengths are given unless 

 otherwise noted. Nomenclature follows Robins et al. (1980). Specimens 

 are deposited at the Florida State Museum, University of Florida (UF) 

 and the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences 

 (UNC). 



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