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Genus 825. EPINEPHELUS Bloch. Groupers. 



Epinephelus Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 11 (E. marginalis). 

 Cerna Bonaparte, Introd. Fauna Italica, III, 1833, pt. 1 {Perca gigas 



Brlinnich). 

 Cromileptes Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 201 



{Serranus altivclis Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Cynichthys Swainson, loc. cit., 201 {Perca flavopurpurea Bennett = 



Holocentrus flavocseruleus Lacepede). 

 Hyporthodiis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 98 {Serranus 



niveatus Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Labroperca Gill, loc. cit., XIV, 1862, 236 {Serranus labrijormis Jenyns). 

 Schistoriis Gill, loc. cit., 237 {Serranus mystacinus Poey). 

 Merus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., X, 1871, 39 {Serranus gigas 



Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Priacanthichthys Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 193 (P. maderaspa- 



tensis Day = Epiyiephelus latefasciatus Temminck and Schlegel). 

 Homalogrystes Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



1877, 268 {H. guentheri Alleyne and Macleay). 

 Hyposerranus Klunzinger, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 1884, 3 {Serranus 



morrhua Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Subgenus SCHISTORUS Gill. 



2384. Epinephelus mystacinus (Poey). Cherna de lo alto. 



West Indies south to Brazil. 



Serranus mystacinus Poey, Memorias, I, 1852, 52, Tab. 10, fig. 1, Cuba 



Subgenus EPINEPHELUS Bloch. 



2385. Epinephelus analogus Gill. Cabrilla pinta. 



Pacific coast of tropical America; common on coast of Mexico. 

 Epinephelus analogus Gill. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 163, 



Panama. 

 ISerranus courtadei Bocourt, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, X, 1868, 222, La 



Union, San Salvador. 



2386. Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck). Rock hind; Cobra mora. 



West Indies; Florida Keys to Brazil; Ascension and St. Helena Islands; 



Woods Hole, Mass. 

 Perca tola Siba, Thesaurus, LII, 1758, Tab. 27. 

 Trachinus adscensionis Osbeck, Iter Chin., etc., 1757, and English ed., 



1771, 96, Ascension Island. 

 Trachinus punctatus Bonnaterre, Tableau Encycl., 1788, 46; after 



Osbeck. 

 Perca stellio Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, 349; after Siba. 

 IPerca macidnla Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, 1792, 92, Martinique; on a 



figure by Plumier. Name preoccupied in Epinephelus. 

 Trachinus osbeck Lacepdde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 1800, 364; after 



Osbeck. 

 Sparus atlanticus Lacdpede, loc. cit., IV, 1803, 158, pi. 5, fig. 1, Marti- 

 nique; on a drawing by Plumier. 

 Serranus nigricvlus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 



1828, 381 (375); Martinique. 

 Serranus pixanga Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 288 (383), after 



Pira-Pixanga or Gat-Vichof, Marcgrave, Hist. Brazil, 1648, 152. 

 Serranus aspersus Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 6, Porto Praya, 



St. Jago of the Cape Verde Islands. 

 Serranus impetiginosus Miiller and Troschel, Schomburgk's Hist. 



Barb., 1848, 665, Bart)ados. 

 "^Serranus varius Bocourt, Ann. Sci. Nat., X, 1868, 222, Gulf coast of 



Mexico. 



2387. Epinephelus guaza (Linnajus). Merou; MSrou; Guasa. 



Coasts of southern Europe and western Africa, ranging north to England, 

 southward to Cape of Good Hope, and westward to Rio Janeiro and 

 to Guiana. The American form, E. mentzeli (Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes), may prove different. 



Labrus guaza Linntcus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 285, "Habitat in Pelago." 



Perca gigas Brunnich, Ichth. Massiliensis, No. 81, 1768, 65, Marseilles. 



Holocentrus merou Lac6pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 377, Marseilles; 

 after Brunnich. 



