ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 131 



LUTJANUS AYA (Bloch) 



El pargo real 



Bodianus aya Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, pt 4 p 45 pi 

 227, 1790 (Brazil). ' * 



Lutianus aya Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 405, fig. 219, 1942 (coast 

 of Venezuela). 



LUTJANUS ANALIS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Pargo sebadal o Ceibadal 



Mesoprion analis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 



2, p. 452, 1828 (San Domingo). 

 Lutianus analis Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 405, fig. 221, 1942 



(coast of Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M.No. 123141, 8 specimens, 52.5 to 156 mm., Point Macolla, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, April 19, 1925. 



Genus RHOMBOPLITES Gill 



Rhomboplites Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. (Genotype, 

 Centropristes aurorubens Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



RHOMBOPLITES AURORUBENS (Cnvier and Valenciennes) 



Pargo guachinango o Mal nombrb 



Centropristes aurorubens Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 3, p. 45, 1829 (Brazil; Martinique; San Domingo). 



Rhomboplites aurorubens Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 406, fig. 222, 

 1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



Genus OCYURUS GUI 



Ocyurus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, p. 236. (Genotype, 

 Sparus chrysurus Bloch.) " " 



OCYURUS CHRYSURUS (Bloch) 



Rabirubxa 



Sparus chrysurus Bloch, Naturgeschichte auslandischen Fische, vol, 5, p. 28, pi, 

 262, 1791 (Brazil) (ref. copied).— Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 

 406, 1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



Family EMMELICHTHYIDAE 



Genus INERMIA Poey 



Inermia Poet, Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, vol. 2, p. 

 193, 1860. (Genotype, Inermia vittata Poey.) 



INERMIA VITTATA Poey 



Inermia vittata Poey, Memorias sobre la historia natural de la isla de Cuba, vol. 

 2, p. 193, pi. 14, fig. 3, 1860 (Cuba). — Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. 

 U. S. Comm. Fish, for 1928, pt. 2, p. 340, 1930 (Venezuela), probably based on 

 Jordan, Copeia, 1922, No. 106, p. 34 (Curagao). 



In my revision of the family Emmelichthyidae (Schultz, 1945b) I 

 described a new genus and species from the Bahamas. 



