. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 209 181. VOMER SETIPINNIS (MitchUl). "Moon-fish"; "Sun-fish"; Horse-fish. Zeua aetipinnis MitchUl, Transactions Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, 1815, 384; New York. Vomer seiipirmis. Yarrow, 1877, 208; Beaufort. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 376; Beaufort. Jordan, 188 6,27; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 88; Beaufort. Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 934, pi. cxliv, fig. 392. Diagnosis.—Depth in adult .5 total length, in young .6 to .8 length; head contained times in length, anterior profile st
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 209 181. VOMER SETIPINNIS (MitchUl). "Moon-fish"; "Sun-fish"; Horse-fish. Zeua aetipinnis MitchUl, Transactions Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, 1815, 384; New York. Vomer seiipirmis. Yarrow, 1877, 208; Beaufort. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 376; Beaufort. Jordan, 188 6,27; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 88; Beaufort. Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 934, pi. cxliv, fig. 392. Diagnosis.—Depth in adult .5 total length, in young .6 to .8 length; head contained times in length, anterior profile steep, forehead verj' prominent, snout projecting, mouth oblique, maxillary extending to front of eye; plates on lateral line about 20; dorsal rays viii +1, 21 or 22; anal rays 11 +1,19 or 20; these fins very low in adults; ventral fins very small; pectorals about length of head. Color: pale green above, silvery on sides; a black blotch at angle of lateral line in young, (setipinnis. bristle-finned.). Fig. 87. Moon-fish; Horse-fish. Vomer setipinnis. Found along the entire east coast of the United States, but not common northward; its range extends through the West Indies to Brazil, and, on the Pacific coast, from Mexico to Peru. Yarrow records it from Beaufort as " abun- dant in the fall, numbers being taken on the outer beach in company with mullet". Its local North Carolina names are "moon-fish" and "sun-fish", and it is not distinguished by the fishermen from Selene vomer. It reaches a length of a foot, and is a good food fish, but is seldom marketed. Genus SELENE Lacfipfede. Moon-fishes. Marine fishes of very peculiar shape, body greatly compressed and much elevated, anterior profile very steep, edges of body sharp; head short and deep with a prominent angle at nape; mouth small, with protractile premaxillaries and broad maxillaries with supplemental bone; jaws, tongue, vomer, and palatals with minute teeth; gill-rakers long and slender; scale
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