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Caranx crysos (Mitchill). 

 Yellow Mackerel. 



Head 3^; depth 3V10 ; D- I, VIII-I, 23; A. II-I, 19; den- 

 ticulate scutes in lateral line 42 ; mandible 2 in head ; fourth erect 

 dorsal spine 2}^ ; first dorsal ray 2 ; first anal ray 2 ; upper caudal 

 lobe 1^/15; pectoral i; ventral 2Vio- Body fusiform, profiles 

 similar anterior and posterior. Head deep, compressed and upper 

 profile forming an even curve. Snout rather sharp. Eye rather 

 small, circular, and adipose eyelid rather narrow. Mandible 

 slightly projecting. Mouth oblique, a little below axis of body. 



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Yellow Alackerel. Caranx crysos (Mitchill). 



Teeth little, with an inner series in upper jaw, mandibular teeth 

 uniserial and comparatively large. No canines. Fine teeth on 

 vomer, palatines and tongue. Maxillary reaching about middle 

 of orbit, its distal expansion 1% in same. Nostrils about mid- 

 way in length of snout. Interorbital space highly convex. Gill- 

 rakers 14 -f 28, slender, longest less than longest filaments to 

 lYs m orbit. Curved part of lateral line 1^4 in straight part and 

 but slightly arched. Widest scute 1^4 in orbit. Scales rather 

 large. Spinous dorsal inserted about midway between posterior 

 margin of orbit and origin of rayed dorsal, and fourth erect spine 

 highest. Rayed dorsal inserted a little nearer base of caudal than 

 tip of snout, and with anterior lobe little elevated. Rayed anal 



