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Family LUTJANIDAE: Snappers; Pargos 



This family is represented by so few species and specimens from 

 Venezuela that it is not practicable to make a key. Instead, the 

 reader is referred to volume 2, p. 491, 1925, of Meek and Hildebrand's 

 "The Marine Fishes of Panama" for a key to the genera of the 

 Lutjanidae likely to occur in Venezuela. 



Genus LUTJANUS Bloch 



Lutjanus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, vol. 4, p. 107, 1790. 

 (Genotype, Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch.) 



LUTJANUS GUTTATUS (Steindachner) 



Mesoprion guttatus Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 60, p. 18, pi. 8, 

 1869 (Mazatldn). 



The following specimen, collected by the U. S. S. Niagara in the 

 Gulf of Venezuela, is referred to this species with some uncertainty: 

 U.S.N.M. No. 123139, a specimen, 48 mm., Amuay Bay, December 9, 1924. 



LUTJANUS GRISEUS (Linnaeus) 



Pargo de Piedra; Aguadera; o Caballerotb 



Labrus griseus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 283, 1758 (Bahamas). 

 Lutianus griseus Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 405, fig. 220, 1942 

 (coast of Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. No. 123140, 1 specimen, 53.5 mm,, Point MacoUa, U. S. S. Niagara, 

 April 19, 1925. 



LUTJANUS JOCU (Bloch and Schneider) 



Joct; 

 Anthias jocu Bloch and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae, p. 310, 1801 (Cuba). 



U.S.N.M. No. 123137, 2 specimens, 70 to 71.5 mm,. Point MacoUa, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, April 19, 1925. 



One specimen, 70 mm., Rfo Borburata at mouth, 3 km. east of Puerto Cabello, 

 F. F. Bond, January 15, 1938. 



LUTJANUS APODUS (Walbanm) 



Caji 



Perca apoda Walbaum, Artedi's Bibliotheca ichthyologicae, vol. 3, p. 351, 1792 

 (ref. copied). 



U.S.N.M. No. 123138, a specimen, from Point MacoUa, U. S. S. Niagara, AprU 

 19 1925. 



LUTJANUS SYNAGRIS (Linnaeus) 

 BlAJAIBA 



Sparus synagris Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 280, 1758 (Bahamas). 

 Lutianus [s]aynagris Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 404, 1942 (coast of 



Venezuela). 

 Mesoprion uninotatus GtJNTHER, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, 



vol. 1, p. 202, 1859 (Puerto CabeUo). 



