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Caranx spcciosus, Laccpcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 72, 1802; Jordan it Evermann, Amer. Food and Game Fishes, 308, 1902; 
Jenkins, Bull. U. s. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 117 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. eit. (Jan 19, 1904), 525 
(Honolulu). 
Caranx pctaurista Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, Descript. Egypte, pi. 23, fig. 1. 1809. 
Caranx poloosoo Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Ichth., pi. 58, figs. 1 and 5, 1814 (called Caranx speciosits in the text, 
13G), Australia. 
Gnathanodon spcciosus, Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1851, 72; Jordan it Evermann, Fish. North it Mid. Amer., I, 928, 
189G. 
Caranx ruppdlii Gunther, Cat., II, 445, 1860, Red Sea. 
Caranxpanamcnsis Gill, I'roc. Ac. Nat. Sri. Phila. 1863, 1GG, Panama (Coll. Captain Dow).. 
Caranx (Hi/pocaranx) spcciosus, Klunzinger, Fische des rothen Mceres. I. 96,1884 (Red Sea); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, LXX. 1900, 495 (Pearl Harbor, Oahu). 
Genus 114. CARANGOIDES Bleeker. 
Teeth persistent, all small, in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, palatines, and tongue; lateral line 
scarcely arched in front; body oblong, not much elevated; otherwise essentially as in Caranx. 
Tropical seas. 
Carangoides Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 27, 59, 1852 (plagiotxnia; teeth equal, several series in both jaws and on 
palate and tongue). 
a. Anal with numerous rays. 25 or 26. 
b. Scutes about 30. . ferdau , p. 198 
bb. Scutes about 25... gi/mnostcthoidcs , p. 199 
aa. Anal with fewer rays, about 16.1. ajax, p. 200 
152. Carangoides ferdau (Forskal). “ Oniilu.” Fig. 77. 
IIead3.6in length; depth 2.7; eye 4.5 in head; snout 3; interorbital 3; maxillary 2.5; I>. vi-i, 29; 
A. ii—i, 25; scutes about 30. 
Body elongate, elliptical, compressed, dorsal outline evenly arched, steep from above eye to tip of 
snout; head as deep as long; snout short, blunt, depressed in front of eye, steep anteriorly; mouth 
Fig. 77. —Carangoidesferdau (Forskal). 
moderate, slightly oblique; teeth small, villiform on vomer, palatines, tongue, and jaws, those in jaws 
the larger and arranged in bands; tongue rounded, thin, and free for tlie most of its length; maxillary 
rather broad, its greatest width 2 in eye, extending to anterior edge of pupil; eye anterior, slightly 
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