Jordan arid Everfuann. — Fishes of North America. 1221 



DuZes .^ayiveMins, CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ni, 113, 1820, Brazil; GCntheb, 



Cat., I, 2G7, 1859. 

 Ojj<ropm(ts (irtisiVicHm, Brisoct DE Baiineville, Kevuo Zoologiquc, 1847, 1.'51, Bahia; sent to 



Paris from tlie Bluseum of Geneva; Gi'NTiiKn, Cat., i, S.'>, 1859. 

 Serraniis braailiensis, Jori>an, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., 1880, 533 (from typo). 

 Seiranus t}avive»lris, Jordan A Eioenm.vnn, /. c.,406, 1890. 

 Serranus aurigi), Boulenger, Cat., i, 287. 



513. PARANTHIAS, Guichenot. 



Brachi/rhiiiH!', Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sri. Pliila., 1862, 230, (creohis = fiircifer) (preoccupied in ento- 

 mology). 

 Parantliia.% Guichenot, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine-et-Loiro, x, 1808, {fiircifer = crcolns). 



Body strongly compressed; snout short; maxillary broad, scaly, its 

 supplemental bone reduced to a rudiment ; teeth small, recurved, in nar- 

 row bands, 2 to 4 canines in front ; preorbital very narrow ; preopercle 

 serrate, with a salient angle; gill rakers slender and numerous; scales 

 small, ctenoid; lateral line complete, running high, the tube with an 

 ascending tubule on each scale; dorsal fin low, of 9 short spines, the 

 third longest ; soft dorsal low, long, like the soft anal, closely scaled at 

 base: anal short and small, its sj)ines graduated, its rays III, 9 or 10; 

 pectorals long, obtusely lanceolate, symmetrical, with 20 or 21 rays; 

 ventrals long, close together, inserted behind pectoral; a lleshy ridge 

 extending backward from axilla; caudal deeply forked ; branchiostegals 

 7; frontal bones* with an anterior concavity for the reception of pos- 

 terior processes of premaxillaries and with a knob-like process on each 

 side behind iuterorbital area ; supraoccipital bone extending forward to 

 between postfrontal processes; supraoccipital and parietal crests pro- 

 duced on the frontals to between orbits ; vertebra? 10 + 14 = 24 ; pyloric 

 cceca 6 to 8. One of the most strongly marked genera. But one species 

 is known, a beautifully colored fish, inhabiting deep waters. (Trapd, near; 

 Anthias, a related genus.) 



1608. PARANTHIAS FURCIFEB (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 (Rabirvbia de lo Alto; Creole Fish.) 



Head3|; depth 3; snout about 4 in head; eye about 4. D. TX,18to20; 

 A. Ill, 9 or 10 ; scales 12-120 to 135-35, pores 77 to 85. Body moderately 

 elongate, strongly compressed; the profile convex and the snout short, as 

 in Anthias; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye, 2,^ in head; max- 

 illary broadened posteriorly, its surface scaled, as in Anthias, its distal 

 extremity i to ^ eye; teeth small, recurved, in a narrow band in each 

 jaw, 2 to 4 straight canines near the front of each jaw; preorbital very 

 narrow ; preopercle finely serrate, with salient angle or enlarged teeth ; 

 gill rakers long, slender, and close-set, 12 -\- 20 in number, the longest f 

 eye; scales small, closely and regularly imbricated, most of them strongly 

 ctenoid ; dorsal fin low, the spines strong, the third longest, 2^^ in head : 

 soft rays of dorsal low, scarcely higher than longest spine; anal short, 



* For an account of the skeleton see GUnther, Cat., i, 101. 



