BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 
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Vomer setipinnis (Mitchill). Moonfish, horsefish, 
dollar-fish. (Goode records the picturesque 
vernacular name “humpbacked butterfish”.) 
Cope, 1870 ( Vomer curtus ); Baird, 1873; Goode 
1884a, p. 322, ( Selene setipinnis ); Jordan and 
Evermann, 1896, p. 934; H. M. Smith, 1898, 
p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 82. 
Woods Hole. — Goode. Newport. — Cope. Buz- 
zards Bay, Vineyard Sound; rare to common, 
appearing during August and remaining during 
September. — Smith. Taken in traps. 
Selene vomer (Linnaeus). Moonfish, lookdown, dol- 
lar-fish. 
Storer, 1867, p. 78 (Argyreiosus capillaris) ; Goode, 
1884a, p. 323 ( Selene argentea ); Jordan and 
Evermann, 1896, p. 936; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 
98; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 508; Kendall, 
1908, p. 82. 
Woods Hole. — Goode. Buzzards Bay, Tisbury 
Pond. — Edwards. Nantucket. — Sharp and 
Fowler. Not common. Taken during Sep- 
tember and October. Traps and saises. 
Trachinotns falcatus (Linnaeus). Round pompano. 
Storer, 1867, p. 280 ( Trachinotus ovatus)', Baird, 
187 3, (Trachinotus ovatus); Goode, 1884a, p.329 
(Trachinotus ovatus)', Jordan and Evermann, 
1896, p. 941; H. M. Smith, 1898, p. 98; Ken- 
dall, 1908, p. 83. 
Vineyard Haven. — Goode. Katama Bay, Lack- 
eys Bay, Great Tisbury Pond, Great Harbor, 
Quisset Harbor, Nobska Beach. — Edwards. 
The young are very common some years (e. g., 
1908); no adults taken. Recorded from July 
to October 18. — Edwards. Taken by seine. 
Trachinotus goodei Jordan & Evermann. Permit, 
black-finned pompano. 
Jordan and Evermann, 1896, p. 943; H. M. 
Smith, 1898, p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 83. 
Nobska Beach and other places. — Edwards. 
Rare; not observed every year; recorded in 
September, 1894 and 1897; only young taken. — 
Smith. Caught by seine. 
Trachinotus argenteus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Silvery pompano. 
Jordan and Evermann, 1896, p. 944; H. M. 
Smith, 1898, p. 98; Kendall, 1908, p. 84. 
One taken by seine at Nobska Beach September 
7, 1885. — Baird, cited by Smith. 
Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus). Common pom- 
pano. 
Baird, 1873; Goode, 1884a, p. 327; Jordan and 
Evermann, 1896, p. 944; H. M. Smith, 1898, 
p. 98; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, p. 509; Ken- 
dall, 1908, p. 84. 
T rachinotus carolinus — Continued. 
Woods Hole as early as 1863. — Baird, cited by 
Goode. Nobska Beach, West Falmouth. — ■ 
Edwards. Nantucket. — Sharp and Fowler. 
Young common; adults not observed for 10 
years. — Smith. Present from latter part of 
July till end of September. — Smith. Taken 
with seine. 
Family PomatomidjS. 
Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus). Bluefish. 
Storer, 1867, p. 82 (Temnodon saltator ); Baird, 
in first reportUnited States Fish Commissioner, 
p. xxin ; Baird, 1873; Verrill and Smith, 1873, 
p. 516; Bean, 1884; Goode, 1884a, p. 433; 
Jordan and Evermann, 1896, p. 946; H. M. 
Smith, 1898, p. 98; Linton, 1901; Sherwood, 
and Edwards, 1901; Sharp and Fowler, 1904, 
p. 509; Kendall, 1908, p. 84. 
Common throughout the region. They first 
appear in Vineyard Sound from the middle of 
May to the first week in June. — Goode. Most 
numerous in July and October. — Edwards. 
Mr. G. H. Sherwood reports that on July 12, 
1901, over 200 were taken from the United 
States Fish Commission “Bay trap” (near 
Woods Hole station), and that a school 4 or 3 
miles long and over a mile wide was noted in 
Narragansett Bay, remaining for about 10 days. 
In 1908, reported as more common in Vine- 
yard Sound than for many years. 
A few have well-developed spawn on arrival. — - 
Smith. Young inches long; ordinarily 
first seen in July, though noted as early as May 
29, in 1903.— Edwards. 
Food: Some taken in August contained Loligo 
pealii and various fishes. — Verrill and Smith. 
Fish (hake, herring, scup, cunner), and squid; 
in younger individuals smaller fish, as a rule, 
but shrimps and amphipods were also found. — 
Linton. 
Parasites: Acanthocephala (Linton) — Echinor- 
hynchus lateralis, E. proteus, E. sagittifer. 
Nematodes (Linton) — Ichthyonema globiceps, 
immature nematodes. Cestodes (Linton) — 
Dibothrium crassiceps, Otobothrium dipsacum, 
Rhynchobothrium bulbifer (cysts), R. speciosum 
(cysts), Scolex polymorphus (larvae), Synboth- 
rium filicolle (cysts), Tetrarhynchus bisulcaius 
(cysts), T. erinaceus (cysts). Trematodes 
(Linton) — Distomum monticellii, D. ocreatum, 
D. vitellosum, D. sp., Microcotyle pomatomi, 
M. sp. Copepods (C. B. Wilson) — Caligus 
schistonyx, Lernanthropus pomatomi. 
For growth of young and other notes of interest, 
see Sherwood and Edwards, 1901. 
