CHAPTER II. 



NOMENCLATURE AND MOEPHOLOGY. 



Class PISCES. 



Subclass TEIjEOSTEI. 



Oeder ACANTHOPTERI. 



Suborder PEROOMORPHI. 



Family CENTRARCHID^. 



SuBFA3irLY MIOROPTEEIE"^. 



Genus MICROPTERUS Lac^pede. 



SYNONOMY. 



Micropterus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. IV, 325, 1802. 

 (Type M. dolomieu Lac.) 



Labrus species, Lacepede, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. IV, 716, 1802. 

 (L. salmoides Lac.) (Not of Linnaeus, the type Labrus 

 mixtus L. belonging to the family of Labridce, the com- 

 mon wrasse-fish of the coasts of Europe.) 

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