7 -LIST OF FISHES COLLECTED AT SEA ISLE CITY, NEW JERSEY. DURING 
THE SUMMER OF 1892. 
BY H. F. MOORE. 
In the summer of 1892 the writer was attached to the Marine Biological Labora- 
tory of the University of Pennsylvania, at Sea Isle City, N. J. During the period 
from June 25 to September 1 all fish taken at the laboratory passed through his 
hr nds, and the notes made thereon are embodied in the present paper. 
Sea Isle City is located upon Ludlam Beach, an island about 10 miles south of 
Great Egg Harbor Bay, where observations upon the fishes were made by Prof. Baird 
in 1854 and by Dr. Bean during the summer of 1887. In 1871 Prof. Yerrill published, 
in the American Naturalist, a short list of the fishes observed in Great Egg Harbor 
Bay, with notes upon their food. 
Most of the species enumerated in the present list were taken in the pound net 
which the laboratory established in Ludlam Bay, a shallow body of salt water (its salin- 
ity being about 5 degrees less than in the ocean on the other side of the island), several 
square miles in extent, communicating with Corson Inlet at the north and Townsend 
Inlet at the south end of the island. The depth of water is, in most places, not over 
3 feet at low water, and a large area of mud flat is left bare by the tide. The tide 
rises about 5 feet in the bay, being one hour later than in the ocean, and the temper- 
ature of the water is several degrees warmer than in the ocean. The thoroughfares 
are tortuous channels with low-lying banks and rapid tidal currents. 
Zostera grows luxuriantly over a large part of the bay, and TJlva, Fucus, and other 
algse abound. The bottom is a vile-smelling mud containing much organic matter. 
Worms, crustaceans, etc., furnish an abundant food supply in the bay. 
The notes which follow relate to marine fishes only, no effort having been made 
to investigate the fauna of the adjacent mainland. Sixty-one species are enumerated 
and of these about thirty-five species are represented by young. A systematic inves- 
tigation would doubtless reveal a number of forms not included in this list but found 
by Dr. Bean at Great Egg Harbor Bay. 
The following species, recorded by neither Prof. Baird nor Dr. Bean, were taken 
by the writer : Carcharias littoralis , Clupea sapidissima , Fcheneis naucrates, Decapterus 
punetatus, Caranx chrysos , Vomer setipinnis, Mullus surmuletus auratus , and Balistes 
carolinensis. Two of these, Clupea sapidissima and Mullus surmuletus auratus , are of 
considerable interest. 
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