1154 Bulleti7i ^7, United States National Museum. 



I^inephelus punelattu, Poey, Enutneratio, 16, 1875. 



l^inephelus atlanliciin, Jordan & Gilbert, Sj'nopsis, 918, 973, 1883. 



Epinephelus (wcenxmm, Jordan & Swain, Pror. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 391. 



Epinephelus aducemionis, Jordan & Kigenmann, I. c, 354, 1890; Boulenoer, Cat., i, 228. 



B}pinephelut <wper8us, Jordan & Eioenmann, I. c, 358. 



1548. EPINEPHELUS OUAZA (Linnieus). 

 (Merou; MfiRO ; Guasa.) 



Head 2i ; depth 2f ; eye 5f in head. D. XI, 15; A. Ill, 8; scales 12 to 

 17-100 to 120-42 to 55, pores 55 to 60. Body rather deep ; profile steep ; 

 snout short, rather pointed; lower jaw little projecting; canines small; 

 preopercle without salient angle, the teeth just above the angle large 

 and strong; lower limb of preopercle entire. Scales of head cycloid. 

 Gill rakers very short, x+ 15. Interorbital space narrow, not as wide as 

 eye; maxillary naked, 2^ in head. Third dorsal spine highest, 2| in 

 head; anal high and rounded, its second spine 5 in head; caudal 

 rounded; pectoral 1^ to 2 in head; ventral short, not reaching vent. 

 Color in spirits: Dark brown, with rather faint, round, whitisli spots 

 which are irregular, and arranged somewhat in vertical rows, and most 

 distinct on caudal peduncle; dorsal, anal, caudal, and pectorals broadly 

 edged with black. Coasts of southern Europe and western Africa, rang- 

 ing north to England and westward to Cape of Good Hope and Rio 

 Janeiro, and to Guiana ; reaching a length of 3 feet, and weight 

 of about 25 pounds. This description is taken from No. 4506, M. C. Z., 

 15 inches long, collected at Rio do Janeiro by Professor Agassiz. There is 

 not mvich doubt that Ejnnfjifiefii^ brachj/somus, Cope, and the Brazilian 

 specimens referred by Cuvier & Valenciennes to Epintphcluii didirojiteriis, 

 belong to this form, for which the earliest American specific name is 

 mentzeli. We are, however, unable to see any difference between the 

 Brazilian form and the common " M6rou " of the Mediterranean. (Guana 

 or Guaza, Spanish name of the large fishes called Merous or Garrupas.) 

 (Eu.) 



Labrus guaza, Linn;eu8, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 1758, 285, " Habitat in Pelage. 



Percagigas, BrCnnich, Ichthyol. MasBiliensis, 65, No. 81, 17GH, Marseilles. 



Eolocetilrus merou, Lac£pede, Hist. Nat. Poisa., iv, 377, 1803, Marseilles; after BRi'iNNicii. 



Serranut menlzeli, CirviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ii, 291, 1828, coast of Brazil; 



GCnther, Cat., I, 140, 1859. 

 Perca rohusta, Coucii, Mag. Nat. Hist., 1832, v, 21, fig. 7, Polperro, Cornwall. 

 Serranug nuirginalus, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1833, 142, Madeira. (Coll. R. T. Lowe.) 

 Ben-anus fimbriatus, LowE, Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc, 1836, 195, pi. i, Madeira. (Coll. It. T. 



Lowe.) 

 Serranns onguji, GCnther, Cat., I, 142, 1859; not Epinephelun ongim. Block, a Japauesu fish. 

 Epinephelus IrachjHommi, Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Phila., 1871, 466, Rio Janeiro. 

 Serranns gigaa, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., il, 270, pi. x.wii, 1828; GCnther, 



Cat., I, 132, 1859, and of European authors generally. 

 Cema gigas, Doderlein, Rivista del Genere Epinephelun o Cerna, 1882, 10, tab. 1, fig. 1 (detailed 



description and synonymy). 

 Epinephelus gigas, Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 388; Jordan & Eioenmann, 



I. c, 359; Boulenoer, Cat., i, 232. 



