. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 303 Diagnosis.â^Dorsal and ventral outlines similar, depth .5 length; head short, a Kttle less than .25 length, longer and more pointed in young; 4 incisors in each jaw, directed obliquely forward, 3 series of molars in upper jaw, 2 in lower jaw; eye .25 head, behind posterior end of maxillary; gill-rakers on first arch about 20, very short, less than .25 diameter of eye; scales in lateral series 55 to 57, in transverse series 20 to 22; dorsal rays xii,14, third to fifth spines longest, less than half length of head; anal
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 303 Diagnosis.â^Dorsal and ventral outlines similar, depth .5 length; head short, a Kttle less than .25 length, longer and more pointed in young; 4 incisors in each jaw, directed obliquely forward, 3 series of molars in upper jaw, 2 in lower jaw; eye .25 head, behind posterior end of maxillary; gill-rakers on first arch about 20, very short, less than .25 diameter of eye; scales in lateral series 55 to 57, in transverse series 20 to 22; dorsal rays xii,14, third to fifth spines longest, less than half length of head; anal rays iri,13, second spine largest; caudal rather deeply forked; pectorals pointed, reaching about as far as anal origin. Color: back dull blue, sides and below silvery; a conspicuous black blotch or band on each side of anterior part of caudal peduncle; opercular margin black; base of pectoral black; back and side of young with about 5 very narrow vertical dark stripes, with about same number of short intermediate stripes on back. (Named for John Edwards Holbrook, author of Ichthyology of South Carolina.). Fig. 136. Spot-tailed Pin-fish. Diplodus holbrookii. This species is known from the coast between Cape Hatteras and Cedar Keys. Jordan & Gilbert, writing of it in 1879, said: Extremely abundant everywhere along the Beaufort shore. This species was first described by Dr. Bean during the past year. That so strongly marked and so abundant a species should have so long escaped notice is very remarkable. Its color is bright silvery, with a large black blotch on the upper part of the caudal peduncle, which is very conspicuous while the fish is in the water. â It reaches but a small size, and is not at Beaufort used as food. The fishermen call it pin-fish, and as such it is beneath their notice. Most of the fishermen, indeed, did not distinguish it from Lagodon rhomboides. The vernacular names for this fish in the Beaufort region and about Bogue Inlet are "pin-fish"
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