. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 182 FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Florida Keys to Brazil; the fish is abundant about Key West, but is not known from the coast north of Florida, while the so-called whirligig mullet is found from Key West to Massachusetts, in salt, brackish, and fresh water. The present writer is inclined to accept Dr. Bean's general conclusion in this matter, but- regards it unfortunate that Querimana gyrans has not been shown to be the young of the striped mullet or the silverside mullet. The chief obstacle to such an identification is the difference in the number of scal
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. 182 FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Florida Keys to Brazil; the fish is abundant about Key West, but is not known from the coast north of Florida, while the so-called whirligig mullet is found from Key West to Massachusetts, in salt, brackish, and fresh water. The present writer is inclined to accept Dr. Bean's general conclusion in this matter, but- regards it unfortunate that Querimana gyrans has not been shown to be the young of the striped mullet or the silverside mullet. The chief obstacle to such an identification is the difference in the number of scales in the lateral series, and until this is overcome the question must be considered unsettled. 156. MUGIL CUREMA Cuvier & Valenciennes. "Silverside MuUet"; "MuUet"; White MuUet; Blue-back Mullet. Mugil curema Cuvier & Valenciennes, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, xi, 87, 1836; Brazil; Martinique; Cu1?a. Jordan,-1886, 27; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 87; Beaufort. Jordan & Evermann, 1896, 813, pi. cxxvi, fig. 344. Linton, 1905, 360; Beaufort. Mitgil braailiensis, Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 381; Beaufort. Diagnosis.—Fonn similar to that of Mugil cephalus, the depth about equal to length of head and contained about 4 times in total length; snout .2 length of head; interorbital space .5 length of head; scales in lateral series about 38, in transverse series 12, about 22 between tip of snout and origin of dorsal; soft dorsal and anal thickly scaled; dorsal rays iv + i,8, the longest spine more than half length of head, the margin of soft dorsal incised; anal fin similar to and opposite soft dorsal, the rays iii,9; caudal deeply forked; pectorals reaching about .75 distance to spinous dorsal. Color: dark greenish or bluish above, silvery on sides, white beneath; no dark streaks along sides in life; two yellow blotches on side of head; a small dark blotch at pectoral base; fins mostly pale, with small dark spots; caudal yellowish at base, with a black
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