Fishes New or Rare on the Atlantic Seaboard 
of the United States 
Fred C. Rohde 
North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries 
127 Cardinal Drive Extension 
Wilmington, North Carolina 28405 
Steve W. Ross 
North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve 
7205 Wrightsville Avenue 
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403 
Sheryan P. Epperly 
National Marine Fisheries Service 
Southeast Fisheries Science Center 
101 Pivers Island Road 
Beaufort, North Carolina 28516-9722 
AND 
George H. Burgess 
Florida Museum of Natural History 
University of Florida 
Gainesville, Florida 32611 
ABSTRACT — Sampling over the continental shelf of the South At- 
lantic Bight, especially off North Carolina, continues to produce 
records of fishes new to or rare in the area. We document the first 
records for United States continental shelf water (<200 m depth) 
of seven fish species: Cirrhigaleus asper, Symphysanodon berryi, 
Pseudocaranx dentex, Lutjanus purpureus, Pristipomoides freemani, 
Poecilopsetta beani, and Lagocephalus lagocephalus. In addition, 
we also report on noteworthy collections of our other fishes cap- 
tured off North Carolina: Synagrops spinosus, Centropristis fuscula, 
Gonioplectrus hispanus, and Etelis oculatus. 
Collections along the Atlantic coast of the Carolinas continue 
to yield fish species never recorded from the area. Most of these 
new records represent tropical and subtropical species that extend their 
published ranges from the Caribbean or the eastern Atlantic (Anderson 
and Gutherz 1964, Burgess et al. 1979, Bohlke and Ross 1981, Ross 
Brimleyana 23:53-64, December 1995 
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