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This species is about equally abundant with L. caxis about Florida 

 Keys and Cuba. The English-speaking' fishermen call it Dog Snapper, 

 the Spanish Jrycii. The fishermen usually distinguish the Jocu by the 

 presence of a \y,\\t^ area below the eye, but the only certain distinction 

 lies in the size of the scales. These are much smaller in L.jocu than in 

 L. caxis. 



Ilesoprion litura, Cuv. & Val. is apparently this species, as also 

 Mesoprion ci/nodon, Giinther. In the synonymy of the latter species 

 several distinct species are confounded. 



Several distinct species are confounded, by Yaillaut and Bocourt 

 under the name Lutjanus jocu. 



5. Lutjanus griseus. Grai) Snapper; Mangrove Snapper; CahaUerote; Lawyer. 



TurduH pinnis hranchialihits carcns (the Maugrove Snapper), Catesby, Hist. 

 Carolina, 1743, tab. 9. 



CahaUerote, Parra, Descr. Dif. Piezas, Hist. Nat., 1787, taf. 25, f. 1. 



Lahrus griseus, Linnanis, Syst. Nat., s, 1758, 283 (after Catesby); Linn;ens, 

 Syst. Nat., xii, 17G6, 474; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, 1283 (copied); Blocli 

 & Schneider, Systema Ichthj'ol., 1801, 268 (copied). 



Lutjanus griseus, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884 (identification of Cates- 

 by's figure). 



Sparus teiracanthus, Blocb, Icbtbyol., ijI. 279, about 1790 (on a drawing by 

 Plnmier). 



Cichla tetracantJia, Blocb «S: Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801,338 (copied). 



Anihias cahallerote, Blocb & Scbueider, Syst. Ichth , 1801, 310 (after Parra). 



Mesoprion cahallerote, Poey, Repertorio, ii, 1868, 157 ; Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1863, 187 (Cuba). 



Lutjanus cahallerote, Poey, Synopsis, 293, 1868; Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 26; 

 Poey, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1882, 118 (Key West) ; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 1883,921; Jordan, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 1884 (Key West); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 126 (Key West). 



Bodianus vivanet, Lac^^jede, iv, pi. 4, f. 3, 1803 (on a drawiug by Plumier). 



Mesoprion griseus, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 1828,469 (San Domingo); 

 Guicbenot, Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 26 (Cuba) ; Giinther, i, 194, 

 18.59 (Cuba ; Jamaica; Puerto Cabello ; British Guiana). 



Lutjanus griseus, Co]pe, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, 1871,470 (St. Kitt's). 



Lohotes emarginatus, Baird & Girard, Ninth Smithsonian Report, 1855, 332 

 (Beesley's Point, New .Jersey). 



Neomwnis emarginatus, Girard, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., pi. ix, figs. 5 to 8, 1859, 

 18 (Brazos Santiago). 



Lutjamts emarginatus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 94 (Beesley's 

 Point). 



Lutjanus caxis, Gill, Rept. U. S. Fish Comm., 1872-3,806; Goode, Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1876, v, 54 (Bermudas); Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1879, 137 (West Florida); Jordan, op. cit., 1880, 19 (Indian River, Florida); 

 Bean, op. cit., 1880, 96 (Bermuda); Jordan «fc Gilbert, op. cit., 1882, 118 

 (Peusacola); Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 1883, 578 (not Sjjarus 

 caxis, Blocb & Schneider). 



Ltitjanus siearnsi, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 179 (Pensacola); 

 Jordan & Gilbert, op. cit., 1882,275 (Pensacola): Jordan «.t Gilbert, Syn- 

 opsis Fish. N. A., 1883, 549 (copied) ; Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1884. 



HaUtat. — New Jersey and Gulf of Mexico to West Indies. 



