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Turdug pinnis branchialibus carent (Mangrove snapper), Catesby, Hist. CaroUna pi 9 

 , 1743, Bahamas. ' ' 



Oaballerote, Paera, Descr. Dif. Piezas, Hist. Nat., pi. 25, fig. 1, 1787, Havana. 

 Labrus grisem, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., x, 283, 1758; after Catesby. 

 Sparus tetracanmis, Bloch, Ichth., pi. 279, 1791, Martinique; on a drawing bv 



Anthiat caballerote, Bloch & Schneidee, Syst. Icbth., 310, 1801, Cuba; after Paeea. 

 Bodianus vivanet, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, pi. 4, fig. 3, 1803, Martinique ; on a 



drawing by Plumiee. 

 Mesoprion griseus, Cuviee & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 469, 1828, San Domingo ; 



not after Linn^us. 

 Lobotes emarginatus, Baied & GlEAED, 9th Smith. Kept., 332, 1855, Beesley Point, New 



Jersey. 

 Lutjanus stearnsi, GOODE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 179, Pensacola, Florida. 



(Type, No. 21337, U. S. N. M. Coll. Silas Stearns.) 

 Mesoprion caballerote, Poey, Kepertorio, ii, 157, 1868. 

 Lutjanus caballerote, Poey, Synopsis, 293, 1868; Poey, Enumeratio, 26, 1875; Joedan & 



Gilbeet, Synopsis, 921, 1883. 

 Lutjanus griseus, Jubdan & Swain, I.e., 439; Joedan & Fesleb, I. c, 441. 



1634. XE0MJ:XIS JOCU (Bloch & Schneider). 



(Dog Snapper ; Joct.) 



Head 2A; depth 2i. D. X, 14; A. Ill, 8; scales (7) 8-56-15, 45 pores. 

 Body comparatively deep and compressed, the back elevated ; profile steep 

 and almost straight from snout to nape, thence little convex ; snoiit rather 

 long and pointed, 2J in head ; eye moderate, 4^ in head ; interorbital space 

 narrow, gently convex, 5f in head; occipital keel moderate; preorbital 

 broad, 4J in head; mouth rather large; jaws subequal; maxillary reach- 

 ing front of orbit, 2| in head; upper jaw with a narrow band of villiform 

 teeth, outside of which is a single series of larger teeth; 4 canines in 

 front of upper jaw, 2 of them very large, almost equaling in length the 

 diameter of pupil; lower jaw with a narrow villiform band in front only, 

 and a series of larger teeth outside, the largest on the side of the jaw 

 almost caninelike; tongue with a single large oval patch of teeth, its 

 length more than twice its width; teeth on vomer forming a broadly 

 arrow-shaped patch with a backward prolongation on median line twice 

 the length of width of anterior part. Gill rakers rather short and thick, 

 the longest about i diameter of eye, about 9 on lower part of arch, with 

 no rudiments in front of them. Preopercle with its posterior margin 

 slanting obliquely downward and forward, the emargination very broad 

 and shallow; preopercle finely serrate above, the teeth coarser at the 

 angle, which is not salient. Scales moderate, smaller than in N. griseus 

 or X. apodus, in nearly horizontal series below, and obliquely upward and 

 backward above the lateral line; about 7 or 8 rows of scales on the cheek; 

 1 row on interopercle, 1 on subopercle, and 7 on opercle; about 3 rows of 

 large scales on the temporal region; top of head, snout, and jaws naked; 

 tubes of lateral line branched; bases of soft dorsal and anal scaly; dorsal 

 spines rather strong, the outline of the tin evenly curved, the fourth and 

 fifth spines longest, 2f in head; the tenth spine 4 in head; margin of soft 

 dorsal convex, the middle rays longest, 2g in head; caudal little forked, 

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