164 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



Pagrus. 



Differs from chrysophris in having but two rows of 

 small rounded molar teeth in each jaw ; the front 

 teeth either resemble those of a card, or are small, 

 close, and even. 



Pagr. vulgaris, Spar us pagrus, L. and Artedi. Sil- 

 very with a reddish gloss ; no black spot \ 



The Indian Ocean and the coast of the United 

 States produce some of these fishes, whose first dorsal 

 spines are prolonged into filaments 2 . 



Others, taken at the Antilles, are remarkable for the 

 first interspinal of their anal fin, which is hollow, and 

 terminates in a bill like a pen. The point of the 

 natatory bladder runs into this kind of funnel. They 

 are called Sarcles a plumes 3 . 



A more remarkable peculiarity is that of a Cape 

 Pagrus, whose maxillaries are enlarged, and as solid 

 as stone ; we call it Pagrus lithognathiis. 



Pagelus, Cuv. 

 Teeth very like those of the preceding genus ; but 



hasta, Bl. Schn. 275., or Sp. berda, Forsk. 33. Sp. calamara, Cuv., 

 Russell 92. Scicena grandoculis, Forsk. 53. Chcetodon bifasciatus, 

 Forsk., which is also Le Labre chapelet, Lacep. iii. 3., his Spams 

 mylio, ib. xxvi. 2., and his Holocentre rabagi, iv. Suppl. 725, &c. 



1 This is also Sp. pagrus of Briinnich, but not of Bloch ; the 

 latter writer has not figured the true pagrus, and in his posthumous 

 " System" it is made Sparus argenteus. 



2 Sparus spinifer, Forsk. Sp. argyrops, L., or Labrus versicolor, 

 Mitch. 



3 Pagr. calamus and Pagr. penna, Cnv. 



