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Round Pampano; Indian River Permit
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The Round Pampano is found from Cape Cod to Florida, along the coast. It is common southward but occurs northward only in the Gulf Stream.
It reaches a foot or more in length and a weight of 3 pounds, and is a good food-fish. It may be known from the old wife and the pampanito by the absence of dark vertical bars.
Colour, bluish above, silvery below; lobe of dorsal black in young; fins in adult all bluish with lighter tips.
Trachinotus rhomboides, the West Indian round pompano occurs among the West Indies and southward. It seems to differ from T. falcatus in the higher vertical fins.
Trachinotus culveri, the Mazatlan pompano, has lower fins than T. falcatus, which it closely resembles otherwise.
It is known only from the vicinity of Mazatlan. It reaches 8 to 10 inches in length.
Trachinotus kennedyi, the Pacific palmoneta, is another of the rather uncommon species of this genus. It occurs on our Pacific Coast from Magdalena Bay to Panama. It reaches a large size and is of value as a food-fish. It is the Pacific Coast representative of T. goodei from which it may be distinguished by the absence of a black axillary spot and the somewhat deeper body.