CARANGID^. 
441 
Mem ohlonga, var. pusilla, F. Bassani, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Napoli 
[2] vol. iii. (1889), no. 6, p. 78, pi. xiv. fig. 5.— Low^r 
Mioeep®; Chiavon, Yicentiii. [Imperfect small fish; 
Geological Museum, University of Padua.] 
Genus CARANX, Cuvier. 
[Regne Animal, vol. ii. 1817, p. 314.] 
Trunk laterally compressed, more or less elongated, regularly 
fusiform, with much constricted caudal pedicle. Head large, with 
low supraoccipital crest, extending forwards between the orbits; 
eye very large ; mouth small or of moderate size, with very minute 
teeth; maxilla expanded behind, with a supramaxilla; preoper¬ 
culum not serrated ; about 7 branchiostegal rays. Paired fins small, 
the pectorals falciform ; an anterior dorsal fin of about 8 feeble 
spines, closely followed by a more extended dorsal of articulated 
rays ; anal fin opposed to the posterior dorsal and of equal extent, 
preceded by two short and separate anal spines ; caudal fin forked. 
Scales thin and small, thickened or enlarged at least along the 
caudal portion of the lateral line; lateral line arched in front, 
straight behind. 
Numerous species of Caranx are common in tropical and tem¬ 
perate seas. No extinct species are represented in the Collection, 
but the following have been described on the evidence of imperfect 
specimens:— 
Caranx carangopsis, J. J. Heckel, Jahrb. k. k. geol. Reichs- 
anst. vol. iii. pt. ii. (1852), p. 161; F. Steindacbner, 
Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss., math.-naturw. Cl. vol. xxxvii. 
(1859), p. 685, pi. V. figs. 2-12, pis. vi., vii.— 
Upper Miocene ; Hernals, near Vienna. [Detached bones, 
several thickened by hyperostosis; Court Museum, 
Vienna.] 
Caranx gracilis^ D. G. Kramberger, Beitr. Palaont. Oesterr.- 
/P^.^jA^A^.^i'oi^-^^^^Ungarns, vol. ii. (1882), p. 128, pi. xxvii. figs. 2-4, and 
/^/iRad Jugoslav. Akad. vol. cvi. (1891), p. 82.—Upper 
<//X y'. 2, Miocene; Radoboj, Podsused, Vrabce, & Dolje, Croatia. 
: Upper Oligocene; Sagor and Trifail, Croatia. [Nearly 
complete fish ; University Geological Museum, Agram.] 
Caranx haueri^ D. G. Kramberger, loc. cit. 1882, p. 126, pi. xxvi. 
figs. 3, 4, pi. xxvii. fig. 1.—Upper Miocene; Podsused, 
Croatia. [Imperfect fish; University Geological Museum, 
Agram.] 
