Jordan and Evcrmann. — Fishes of N'orf/i America. 1579 



Labrus americanus. Block & Schneider, Syst. Iclitli., 261, 1801; after Schopf. 



Lahrus tmUoga, Mitchill, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1815,399, Long Island ; Rhode Island; 



Cape Cod ; Sandy Hook. 

 Labrus tautoga fusea, Mitchill, Trans. Am. Phil. Soi-. 1815, 402, New York. 

 . Lahrus tautoga rubens, Mitchill, I. c, 1815, 402, New York. 

 Labrus tautoga alia, Mitchill, I. c, 1815, 402, New York. 



Tantoga tessellata, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xiii, 315, 1839; after Bloch. 

 Tautoga americana, De Kay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 175, pi. 14, fig. 39, 1842; Stoker, 



Hist. Fish. Mass., 276, 1867. 

 Tautoga onitis, Gunther, Cat., iv, 88, 1862 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, 



374; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 87; Jordan Sc Gilbert, Synopsis, 600, 1883; 



Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 268, 1884. 

 Iliatula onitis, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 936, 1883 ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 



28; Jordan, Review Labroid Fishes, 625, 1890. 

 Iliatula hiatula, Gooue &, Bean, Proc. T. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 201 ; note on typo of Labrus 



hiatula. 



630. LACHNOLAIMUS, Cuvier A- Valemiennes. 

 (Capitaines.) 



Lachnolaimus, Cuvier & Valencienne.s, Hist. Nat. Poiss... xiii, 274, 1839 (aigula~mazi- 



mus) . 

 Lachnolcenms, GiJNTHKR; corrected spelling. -^ 



Body stroDgly compressed, the back sharp and elevated, the profile long 

 and steep. Snout sharj); mouth low, horizontal, the jaws nariow; -pve- 

 maxillary slii^ping under the membranaceous edge of the very broad pre- 

 orbital, which is twice the depth of the eye. Teeth in front prominent, 

 canine-like, in a single series; no posterior canines. Cheeks and opercles 

 with imbricate scales; scales of moderate size, thin, adherent; lateral line 

 complete. Dorsal with 14 spines, the first 3 strong, falcate, produced in 

 long streamers in the adult, the membranes between these spines very 

 low, the filamentous tips longer than the head; other spines all low, grad- 

 ually shorter to the eleventh; second dorsal and anal much produced; 

 caudal lobes falcate ; third anal spine strong ; pectorals and ventrals short. 

 This genus contains a single species, a large, showj' fish of tiopical Amer- 

 ica, remarkable for the long streamer-like filaments on the dorsal spines. 

 (Xdxvrf down, velvet; Xai/t6<, throat, the pharyngeal bones being only 

 partly provided with teeth, and the rest of their surface with a velvety 

 membrane.) 



19S«. LArHXOLAIMlIS MAXIMIJS (Walbaura). 



(HOGFISH; CAPITAINE; PERRO PERRO.) 



Head 3 ; depth 21. D. XIY, 11 or 12 ; A. Ill, 11 ; eye 4 in head ; snout 2^ ; 

 filamentous dorsal spines i longer than head ; pectoral li in head, equal 

 to ventrals; highest dorsal ray 1^; third anal spine 2|-; longest anal rays 

 14 ; scales 8-39-13. 



Body deep, strongly compressed, the back much elevated, the profile 

 long and steep, slightly concave before eye ; snout sharp ; maxillary reach- 

 ing to anterior origin of pupil ; canine teeth prominent ; 4 sharp canines 

 in front of ux)per jaw, 2 in the sides of lower jaw, 2 small conical teeth 

 between them; filamentous dorsal spine reaching to last rays of soft 



