Species: Membras martinica, Rough Silverside

Membras martinica (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1835)

Rough Silverside

Slender, elongate, compressed; 4 large quadrangular sensory pits on top of snout; top jaw strongly extendible, premaxilla with rear end greatly expanded, without expanded bony process above its center; first dorsal V, origin well before origin of anal; anus nearer origin of anal fin than to base of pelvic; tips of pelvics not reaching anus; pectoral reaches past origin of pelvic; scales on sides with fringed rear edges; pelvic axillary scale >1/3 fin length.

Upper body bright yellow to sea-green, speckled or cross-hatched with dark pigment; lower body silverish; silver flank stripe.

Size: large 15 cm.

Habitat: coastal lagoons, and bays.

Depth: 0-10 m?

New York to the Gulf of Mexico.