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It is known from our coast only from the record of Dr. Abbott. 

 It is properly a native of southern waters and can only be said 

 tO' be a straggler on our shores. 



Peprilus longipinnis Abbott, Geol. N. J., 1868, p. 812. 



Genus Poronotus Gill. 

 The Butter Fishes. 



Poronotus triacanthus (Peck). 

 Butter Fish. Harvest Fish. Dollar Fish. 



Head 3^ ; depth 2\/,] D. III-I, v, 42, i ; A. II-I, v; 40, i ; 

 snout 3% in head; eye 3^ ; maxillary 3; interorbital space 3; 



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Butter Fish. Poronotus triacanthus (Peck). 



first branched dorsal ray i j/s ; first branched anal ray 2 ; caudal 

 i; least depth of caudal peduncle 3^; pectoral i. Body oval, 

 much compressed, deep, and upper profile more evenly convex 

 than lower. Caudal peduncle slender, compressed. Head deep, 

 lower profile more inclined than upper, and upper convex. Snout 

 very blunt, rounded in profile. Eye circular, a little anterior. 

 Jaws short, about even. Mouth small, maxillary reaching abou't 

 half way to orbit. Teeth a narrow cutting-edge around each 

 jaw. Nostrils near together, in profile a little nearer tip of snout 

 than base of caudal. Interorbital space convexly elevated. Gill- 



