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Suborder PHARYNGOGNATHI 

 Labroid Fishes 

 Family labridae 



Wrasse Fishes 

 Genus tautogolabrus Giinther 

 Body oblong, not elevated, comparatively slender and com- 

 pressed; head moderate, more or less pointed, but the jaws not 

 notably produced; teeth in the jaws in several series, the outer- 

 most very strong; the teeth unequal, conical and pointed; no 

 posterior canines. Cheeks with small scales; opercles with large 

 ones; interopercles naked; preopercle with the vertical limb 

 finely serrated. Branchiostegals five. Gill membranes consid- 

 erably united, free from the isthmus; gill rakers short. Scales 

 moderate, 35 to 50 in the lateral line; lateral line continuous, 

 abruptly bent opposite posterior part of second dorsal; dorsal 

 long and low, the spinous portion much longer than the soft, 

 of 18 or 19 low, subequal, rather strong spines; soft dorsal 

 slightly elevated; anal fin similar to soft dorsal, with three 

 istrong graduated spines; caudal truncate; pectorals short, the 

 centrals inserted behind their axils. Species two, both Amer- 

 ican. This genus is very close to the European genus C t e n o - 

 1 a b r u s , differing in the less perfect squamation of the head 

 and in the greater number of dorsal spines and vertebrae. 



288 Tautogolabrus adspersus (Walbaum) 



Bergall; Gunner; Chogset: Nipper 



Labrus adspersus Walbatjm, Art. Gen. Pise. 254, 1792. 



Tautoga Caerulea Mitchill, Rep. Fish. N. Y. 24, 1814, New York. 



Labrus chogset Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soe. N. Y. I, 402, pi. 3, fig. 2, 



1815, New York. 

 .Labrus chogset fulva Mitchill, 1. c. 403, 1815, New York. 

 Ctenolabrus uninotatus Cuviek & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XIII, 



239, 1839, New York, young; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 174, 



pi. 29, fig. 90, 1842; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. IV, 90, 1862. 

 €tenolabrus burgall Gunther, 1. c. 90, 1862, Canada. 

 XJtenolabrus chogset Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. XIII, 237, 



1839. 

 €tenolahrus ceruleus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 172, pi. 29, fig. 93, 1842. 

 Ctenolabrus adspersus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 599, 



1883; Bean, 19th Rep. Comm. Fish. N. Y. 251, pi. IV, fig. 6, 1890. 



