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GENUS VOMER CUVIER & VALENCIENNES
The Moon-fishes
This genus is closely allied to Carangus, from which it differs only in its distortion of form, and in its weak teeth and very low fins. Body broad-ovate, very strongly compressed, all its outlines sharply trenchant; head very gibbous above the eyes, its anterior profile vertical; lateral line strongly arched, its posterior portion with very weak shields; scales minute; soft dorsal and anal extremely low, not falcate. Young much deeper than the adult, all the fins higher, resembling the next genus. Warm seas; 3 species in our waters. The first of these is V. dorsalis, the horsefish, a rare species said to occur on the west coast of Africa, about the Cape Verde Islands, and in the West Indies.