. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 88. SPARIDiE DIPLODUS. 559 ibout as I dck; ith age, e middle y steep; â &-<:. bare; lu8 Walb. preorbital broad. Month low, horizontal; incisors broad, serrated in the young, then becoming emarginate and finally entire. Cheeks with C rows of scales; scales on breast very small, crowded. Dorsal spines very strong, higher than the soft rays, the last considerably shortened, so that the outline of the flu is emarginate; second anal spine very strong, nearly as long as the snout and eye; pectoral very long, reacli- in;{
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 88. SPARIDiE DIPLODUS. 559 ibout as I dck; ith age, e middle y steep; â &-<:. bare; lu8 Walb. preorbital broad. Month low, horizontal; incisors broad, serrated in the young, then becoming emarginate and finally entire. Cheeks with C rows of scales; scales on breast very small, crowded. Dorsal spines very strong, higher than the soft rays, the last considerably shortened, so that the outline of the flu is emarginate; second anal spine very strong, nearly as long as the snout and eye; pectoral very long, reacli- in;{: Sargm ovia Holbrook, Ich. S. Car. 18G0, 54; GUuthor, i, 447: Archomrgua prohaiocephalus Gill, aud of most late American writers.) ' lb. No procurabent spino before the dorsal fin. (Diplodua.) §81. D. holbrookl (Bean) J. & G.âBream. Dull silvery, without cross-bands; dorsal, caudal, anal, ventrals, axil, aud edge of opercle dusky; a black blotch on caudal peduncle above. Body ovate, not elevated, compressed, the axis of the body below the middle of its depth. Eight incisors in each jaw; tbree rows of molars above, two below. Pectoral 3 in length ; second anal spine longest. Head 3*; depth 2J. D. XII, 14; A. Ill, 13; scales 8-Gl-lO. L. 12 inches. Charleston, S. C. {Bean.) (Possibly the adult form of the next.) {Sargiis holhrooM Bean, Forest and Stream, June 13, 1878, iand in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mils. 1878, 198.) §§5. D. caildiniacula (Poey) J. & G.âSpot-tailed Pin-fiah. Silvery, with bright reflections; about 8 very narrow dark vertical bands; a very distinct black bar on back and sides of caudal peduncle; shining streaks and dark punctulations along the rows of scales; ven- trals and anal mottled with dusky; edge of opercle dusky; axil dark. Body ovate, compressed, very deep. Dorsal and ventral outlines both strongly arched, the axis of the body at about the middle of the depth, the back steeply elevated behind the nape. Maxillary not reaching the eye, which i
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