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Scales 56 to 58 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 to 8 more on 

 latter; 8 or 9 above, 15 below, 20 to 23 predorsal; 5 rows on cheek to 

 preopercle ridge. Scales with 10 to 13 basal radiating striae, edge 

 undulate; 64 to 93 apical denticles, with 15 or 16 transverse series of 

 basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. X or XI, 13, I or 14, i, fourth spine 2 to 2% in head, first ray 2% 

 to 3; A. Ill, 11, 1, second spine 3)^ to 3}^, first ray 2% to 3; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3 to 3K; pectoral 1% to 2%; ventral 1}^ to Iji; 

 caudal 3 in combined head and trunk with age, or 1}^ in head in young. 



Brown above, paler below, with silvery tints. Sides with seven 

 transverse dark brown bands, alternating as many more similar 

 parallel paler ones. Dusky saddle on caudal peduncle above and on 

 sides. Hind caudal edge dusky. Dorsals and anals dusky margin- 

 ally. Front ventral rays dusky. 



Mediterranean, Canaries, South Africa. According to Barnard 

 reaches 500 mm. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 12461 to 12468. Mediterranean. C. L. Bonaparte. Length, 55 

 to 215 mm. 



Genus BOOPS Cuvier 



Boops Cuvier, M6m. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, p. 453, 1815. (Type, Sparus 



boops Linnaeus, tautotypic.) 

 Box Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 346, 1830. (Type, Box vulgaris 



Valenciennes, designated by Jordan and Fesler, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., 



1889-1891, pt. 17, p. 529, 1893.) 

 Exocallus DE la Pylaie (Recherches en France, Poiss.), Congr. Sci. France, 



Poitiers, p. 522, 1834 (1835). (Type, Exocallus insignis de la PyLAiE'= 



Sparus boops Linnaeus, monotypic. Exocallus de la Pylaie proposed to 



replace Boops Cuvier.) 



Both jaws with single front series of broad incisors, each with notch 

 at cutting edge. No molars. Intestinal canal elongate. Pyloric 

 appendages 5. Scales moderate. Cheeks scaly. Dorsal spines 13 

 to 16, depressible within scaly basal sheaths. Anal spines 3. _ 



Warmer Atlantic, largely of the Mediterranean region. Vegetable 

 feeders. Box salpoides Valenciennes ® described from an example 

 obtained by Peron 125 mm long, may be Sparus boops Linnaeus with 

 wrong locality. It is said to be similar to the Mediterranean form with 

 body more elongate but less than that of Box goreensis. Differs from 

 last in smaller eye, more obtuse snout and forehead more erect. No 

 black spot in pectoral axil. Otherwise same teeth and same number 

 of rays. Uniform golden-yellow, possibly result of alcohol. 



BOOPS UNEATUS (Boulenger) 



Box lineatus Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1892, p. 134 (type locality: 

 Muscat, East Arabia). — Steindachner, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 39, 

 No. 24, p. 316, 1902 (Kischin); Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. KL, 

 vol. 71, pt. 1, p. 135, pi. 2, fig. 2, 1907 (Geschin, South Arabia). 



« Box salpoides Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 365, 1830 (type locality: Seas of the Indies) . 



