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2421. Mycteroperca falcata (Poey). Scamp; Bacalao; Abadejo. 



West Indies, north to Bermuda. 



Serranus falcatus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 138, Habana. 



2422. Mycteroperca phenax Jordan and Swain. Scamp; Bacalao. 



Coasts of southern Florida; abundant about the keys. 

 Mycteroperca falcata phenax Jordan and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 VII, 1884, 363, Key West, Fla. 



2423. Mycteroperca calliura Poey. 



Coast of Cuba. 



Mycteroperca calliura Poey, Repertorio, I, 1867, 181, Cuba. 



2424. Mycteroperca tigris (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Bonaci gate; Rockfish. 



West Indies, north to Bermuda. 



Serranus tigris Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, 



325 (440), San Domingo. 

 Serranus felinus Poey, ^lemorias, II, 1861, 134, Habana. 

 Serranus repandus Poey, loc. cit., 135, Habana. 

 Trisotropis reticulatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XVII, 1865, 



105, Barbados. 



2425. Mycteroperca camelopardalis (Poey). 



West Indies. 



Serranus camelopardalis Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 132, Cuba, a bright 

 red form, otherwise similar to M. tigris. 



Genus 832. XYSTROPERCA Jordan and Evermann. 



Xystroperca Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 1896, 1181 {Mycteroperca pardalis Gilbert). 



2426. Xystroperca pardalis (Gilbert). Cabrilla pirilita. 



Gulf of California. 



Mycteroperca pardalis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 551, 

 La Paz Bay, Lower California. 



Genus 833. PAREPINEPHELUS Bleeker. 



Parepinephelus Blocker, Systema Pcrcarum Revisum, in Archiv Neer. 

 des Sci. Exet. Nat., XI, 1875, 1870, 257 (Serranus acutirostris Cuvier 

 and Ya.lencicBncs = Epinephelus ruber Bloch). 



2427. Parepinephelus acutirostris (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Scirenga. 



West Indies, Brazil, Mediterranean Sea, and islands of the eastern 



Atlantic. 

 lEpinephelus ruber *' Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fi.sche, VII, 1793, 22, pi. .330, 



"Japan"; probably from the Mediterranean. 

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



1828, 212 (286), Brazil. 

 Serranus undulosus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 219 (295), Brazil. 

 Serranus tinea Cantraine, "Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., XI, 1831," Naples. 

 Serranus fuscus Lowe, Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc, VI, 1838, 196, 



Madeira. 

 Cerna nebulosa Cocco, "Indice Pesci. Messina, Gen. 45, sp. 2," 1844, 



Messina. 

 Cerna macrogenis Sassi, "Descr. Genovseil Genovasato, I, 139," 1846, 



Genoa. 

 Serranus emarginatus Valenciennes, Ichth. lies Canaries, 1839, 10, 



Canary Islands. 

 Epinephelus chalinius Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1871, 465, 



St. Martins. 

 Cerna acutirostris lata Doderlein, loc. cit., 74, Palermo. 



Genus 834. CHORISTISTIUM Gill. 



Chorislistinm Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 15 [Liopro- 

 poma rubra Poey). 



2428. Chorististium rubrura (Poey). 



Coast of Cuba. 



Liopropoma rubre Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 418, Habana. 



»■ TheoriKinal type of E. ruber has 24 gill rakers; all others examined (Athem, Brazil) have 30 to 36; for 

 these we retain the name acutiroitTi* pending investigation. 



