. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 77. 8tromateid;e. 449 lute. Lateral line unarmed. Ventrals thoracic, l, 5, sotnotinjoa depress- ible in a deep groove in the abdomen. Dorsal fins separate; the spines usually feeble, connected by membrane. Soft dorsal lon;^, sometimes flith linlets; anal tin similar to soft dorsal, without free s])ines; caudal pBilutide shuuVer, the flu widely forked. Pyloric cieca numerous, (rcn- era 5 > species about 10. Fishes of the tropical seas. (Scomhridw, jjroup Nomeina Oilnthor, ii, 387-;K)2.) i, Cluft f mouth narrow; veutrnlH
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 77. 8tromateid;e. 449 lute. Lateral line unarmed. Ventrals thoracic, l, 5, sotnotinjoa depress- ible in a deep groove in the abdomen. Dorsal fins separate; the spines usually feeble, connected by membrane. Soft dorsal lon;^, sometimes flith linlets; anal tin similar to soft dorsal, without free s])ines; caudal pBilutide shuuVer, the flu widely forked. Pyloric cieca numerous, (rcn- era 5 > species about 10. Fishes of the tropical seas. (Scomhridw, jjroup Nomeina Oilnthor, ii, 387-;K)2.) i, Cluft f mouth narrow; veutrnlH roccivoil in a «loop ^jroovo in tlio abdomnn. NOMKUS, 231. Cuvicr. (Ciivior, R^jJ;no Aniin. 1817; typo Gohiuit gro!>ovU (iinolin.) Body oblouff, rather comiirossed, covered with rather small cycloid scales. JTead Hattish above; occipital crest little developed; cleft of the mouth narrow. Teeth small, in a single series in the jaws; teeth on the vomer and palatines. Pseudobranchia) large. First dorsal with 10or 11 spines; second dorsal and anal very long, similar to each other, ffjtliout (inlets; anal flu with 3 rather strong spines, none of them free; caudal lin not deeply forked ; ventral lins long and broad, attached to the belly by a membrane, depressible in a deep furrow in the abdomen. Lateral line running high. Air-bladder present. Pyloric c<Bca very numerous. Vertebrro 10 + 25. Warm seas, {vo/xshi;, pastor; early travellers having compiled the fish to a mullet, herder or berger in Dutch.) r09. I¥. SfronovH (Gmel.) Gthr. Brownish above, silvery below, the sides below with large round brown spots; ventrals black, with silvery edgings; anal with 3 brown spots. Maxillary reaching to below the front of the eye; vimtrals reaching front of anal, pectorals still further. D. X-I, 20; A. Ill, 26. Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; north to Florida. {CoUm gronovli Gmelin, Syet. Nat. 1788, 1205: Nomcus mauritU Cnv. &, Val. ix, 243: Glinther,
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