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It is a Pachypops with a spotted dorsal, and coming as it does from the Esse- 

 quibo is probably, as suggested b}^ Jordan and Eigenmann (1889), the Corvina 

 grunniens of Schomburgk. However, the meager description given by Schomburgk 

 makes positive identification very difficult. 



MicROPOGON Cuvier and Valenciennes. 

 Micropogon Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 213 {lineahis = 



furnieri). 



Type, Micropogon lineatus Cuvier and Valenciennes = Umbrina furnieri 

 Desmarest. 



Micropogon is a well-marked genus of closely related species with a row ol 

 minute barbels on each ramus of the lower jaw near the symphysis; the margin oi 

 the preopercle is strongly serrate. Teeth in villiform bands, the outer row of the 

 upper jaw enlarged. Caudal fin doubly truncate in the adult. Represented in this 

 collection by the single, widely distributed species, 



323. Micropogon furnieri (Desmarest). 



Umbrina furnieri Desmarest, Premiere Decade Ichth., 1823, 22, pi. 2, fig. 3 

 (Cuba). 



Micropogon furnieri Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 37 (Havana). — 

 Bean and Dresel, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 157 (Jamaica). — Jordan, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886, 44 (Havana). — Jordan and Eigenmann, 

 Rept. U. S. Fish Com. for 1886, 1889, 418 (Cuba and Rio Janeiro).— Jordan 

 and Evermann, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 47, II, 1898, 1462 (Havana).— 

 Berg, An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, IV, 1895, 55 (Montevideo). — Lahille, 

 Rev. Mus. la Plata, VI, 1895, 8 (Puerto Vieja; Puerto La Plata). — Jordan and 

 Evermann, Rept. U. S. Fish Com. for 1895, 1896, 399 (name only).— von 

 Ihering, "Os Peixes da Costa do Mar no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul," 

 1896, 12 (Lagoa dos Patos).— Delfin, Revista Chilena Hist. Nat., 1901, 69. 

 —Evermann and Marsh, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XX, 1902, 220 (San Juan and 

 Arecibo). 



Micropogon lineatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 218, 

 pi. 119 (Brazil; Porto Rico; Havana). — Mijller and Troschel, in Schom- 

 burgk, Reisen, III, 1848, 621. 



Micropogon argenteus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 218 

 (Surinam) . 



Micropogon undulatus GIjnther, Catalogue, II, 1860, 271 (in part, not Perca 

 undulata L.) (Surinam; Bahia; Guatemala; Cuba; Jamaica). — Poey, Repert. 



