1466 BuUdin //, United States National Museum. 



1848. UMBBINA BROUSSOXETII, Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



This species is described <as follows : " We find in the collections of Brous- 

 sonet an JJmhrina announced at once (which is little probable), as from 

 the South Sea and from Jamaica. Its height is 4 times in its length ; its 

 barbel is short and pointed ; all its teeth are in fine velvet ; the lobes be- 

 fore its upper jaw are little marked, the preopercular deuticulations are 

 pronounced; though much altered, we do not see that it has spots, and it 

 certainly seems a distinct species. Its dorsal spines are slender; the sec- 

 ond anal is rather strong. Its ventrals are \ longer than the pectorals. 

 There is reason to believe that the caudal was truncate. Its numbers ap- 

 proach those of the 2 preceeding species. D. X-I, 25; A. II, 6." (Cuvier 

 & Valenciennes; translation.) A doubtful species. If it really came from 

 Jamaica, it may be the same as Umbrina coroides, but the fin rays are said 

 to be fewer. Cuvier & Valenciennes counted 29 in coroides. The name 

 broiissonefii has priority over coroides if the 2 are the same. (Named for 

 P. M. Auguste Broussonet, doctor of medicine at Montpelier in the last cen- 

 tury; an accurate and conscientious naturalist.) 



Umbrina hroussonetii, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Pois.s., v, 187, 1830. (Type, a 

 specimen in Broussonet's collection supposed to be from Jamaica.) 



1849. UMBRIXA (OROIDES,* Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



HeadSi; depth 3; eye 3i| in head. D. X-I, 27 or 28; A. II, 6 or 7; scales 

 5-^8-10. Body rather stout, the back somewhat elevated ; mouth moder- 

 ate, maxillary extending to middle of pupil; teeth villiform, subequal, 

 in broad bands; preopercle finely denticulate on its bony edge; barbel 

 short; second dorsal spine highest, If in head; pectoral fins short and 

 small, If in head, not reaching to tips of ventrals nor halfway to vent; 

 caudal truncate; second anal spine thick, 2^ in head; gill rakers 5 + 9, 

 slender and small. Color silvery, darker above; body with about 9 dark 



tedi est mal employr ]iar Its antcurs modernes, et M. Gill citte meme le Scicena aguila 

 conune le tyiu- du ui'iirc." ( HIi-rkiT, I. <•.) 



Inquotiiiii riiiliriiiii i-i ii-osii as tlic type of Artedi's genus /Scioe/iaiBleeker means merely 

 that it is the mic i)la(' il liist li\ Aittdi in the list of species. 



'Jordan iV Kutiii- :;i\i tin' liillnwiiisx description of specimens of TJmhrina coroides in 

 their Fislirs ..t .lainair;i: ll,;i,i :;,V; drptbSJ; eye 4g in head. D. X-I, 27; A. 11,6; scales 

 6-r)0-9. Iliiilh >t ii.Hiit i>r il<>i\-.al . Ml t line at anterior third of .spinous dorsal, tlie anterior 

 outline ni(ii( SI I (iiiuly (iii\c.l. Mulnli inferior, horizontal or nearly so; teeth equal, in 

 bands; barli.l ^lioi i . Miint , widlli >>\ |ir.M.vl)ital equal to length of eye; nostrils close 

 together, til. |m,^i, i mi ni,l,,nu hm.i. ili:in i w ice as large as anterior, situated immediately 

 in front olcyr; pii (■|»r. le liii< ly andixcnly serrate above angle; opercle with 2 dull 

 points, not exleiuliiig U< rdf^i' III iii;iiL;iii;il lutinbraiie, tlie lower somewhat moreacute, both 

 evenly prujcetiiig; the loins and jions in Irimt. of the mouth well developed. Pectorals 

 as loiigas ventr;ils, IJ in liciid. iiisrrlcd nndrr opricnlar im-nilirane; ventrals inserted 

 behind peetorals, llie dutci' ray \\itli a vri'y line tilaniciit. Third dorsal sjiine longest, 21, 

 in head; caudal sli;;litly oniaruiiialr. the lower angle sli.nlitly rounded, ujiju'r and longest 

 rays IJ in li<'a<l, or ((jnal to lir;i(l in front of opercle. Ground ((dor steel urav, soniewluit, 

 silvery (slightly golden in one specimen); 9 dusky b.ars on side, the anterior and posterior 

 less distinct, L' in front of dorsal, '2 under spinous dorsal, the fifth in front of second dorsal, 

 the last at end of (kirs;il; em li row of scales above belly with a dark line, these oblique 

 above later;il line, irreuuhir below; tip of spinous dorsal black, edge of soft dorsal dusky, 

 ventral and tij) of caudal faintly dusky, underside of opercle black. This description is 

 based on 3 perfect .specimens lU inches long. They are not so deep as the figure given by 

 Cuvier (117), the caudal is shorter, and there are 2 fewer rays in the dorsal. It seems best 

 not to use the name Umbrina broiissonetii for this species, as the sliort account given by 

 Cuvier & Valenciennes does notagree with the species, and Broussonet's specimens may 

 not have come from Jamaica. 



