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SCARUS VIRIDIS (Bonnaterre) 

 LORO 



Scarus viridis Bonnaterre, Tableau encyclop^dique, Ichthyologie, vol. 6, p. 96, 



1788 (Bahamas) (ref. copied). 

 Sparisoma viridis Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 409, 1942 (coast of 



Venezuela). 



Suborder Blennioidea 



Family CLINIDAE: Blennies 



The specimens and number of species from Venezuela are too few 

 to warrant the construction of a key for their identification. Instead, 

 the reader is referred to Meek and Hildebrand's "The Marine Fishes 

 of Panama," part 3, pp. 928-953, 1928, and to Longley and Hilde- 

 brand's "Systematic Catalogue of the Fishes of Tortugas, Florida," 

 Carnegie Inst. Washmgton Publ. No. 535, pp. 246-276, 1941, for aid 

 in identification of the blennies likely to occur in Venezuela. 



Genus LABRISOMUS Swainson 



Lahrisomus Swainson, The natural history and classification of fishes, vol. 2, p. 

 277, 1839. ("Genotype, Clinus pedinifer Cuvier and Valenciennes = CZinus 

 nuchipinnis Quoy and Gaimard.) (Ref. copied.) 



LABRISOMUS NUCHIPINNIS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Clinus nuchipinnis Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage autour du monde . . . 

 L'Uranie et La Physidenne, p. 255, 1824 (Rio de Janeiro) (ref. copied). — 

 Metzelaar, Report on the fishes collected by Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch 

 West Indies 1904-1905, p. 154, 1919 (Venezuela). 



U.S.N.M. Nos. 78251 and 78252, Puerto Cabello, J. N. Rose. 



U.S.N. M. No. 123173, 1 specimen, 46.5 mm., Estanques Bay, U. S. S. Niagara, 

 February 20, 1925. 



U.S.N.M. No. 123174, 1 specimen, 61 mm.. Cape San Romdn, U. S. S. Niagara, 

 April 2, 1925. 



Genus PARACLINUS Mocquard 



Paraclinus Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 8, vol. 1, No. 1, p. 41, 1889 

 (■substitute name for Acanthoclinus Mocquard, 1886. (Genotype, Acantho- 

 clinus chaperi Mocquard.) 

 For synonymy of this genus see Storey (1940, pp. 85-86). 



PARACLINUS NIGRIPINNIS (Steindachner) 



Clinus nigripinnis Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 50, p. 45, 1867 

 (Barbados). 



U.S.N.M. No. 123172, a specimen, 34 mm., from Cape San Romdn, U. S. S. 

 Niagara, April 2, 1925. 



PARACUNUS CHAPERI (Mocquard) 



Acanthoclinus chaperi Mocquard, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 10, pp. 

 18-20, 1886 (Guanta Bay, near Barcelona, Venezuela). — Storey, Copeia, No. 

 2, p. 82, 1940 (Guanta Bay). 



