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2674. Bairdiella icistia (Jordan and Gilbert). Corbineta. 



Pacific coast of Mexico; rather common about Mazatlan. 

 Sciwna icistia Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 

 3.5(5, Mazatlan. 



2675. Bairdiella ronchus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). lionco; Ground drummer. 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America; generally common in the West 



Indies and along the coast of Brazil. 

 Corvina ronchus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 



79 (107), Maracaibo; Surinam. 



2676. Bairdiella bedoti (Regan). 



Cuba. 



Sciaena {Bairdiella) bedolis Regan, Rev. Suisse Zool., XIII, 1905, 391, 

 Pi. VI, Cuba. 



Genus 919. NECTOR Jordan and Evermann. 



Xcctur Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1898, 

 1432 {Corvina chrysoleuca Gtinther). 



2677. Nector armatus (Gill). 



Both coasts of tropical America; not uncommon on the Pacific coast 

 about Panama, and equally abundant on the Atlantic coast. 



Bairdiella armata Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 164, 

 west coast of Central America. 



Corvina acutirostris Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., Ill, 1875, 28, pi. 4, 

 Panama. 



2678. Nector verae-crucis (Jordan and Dickerson). 



Gulf of Mexico, Vera Cruz. 



Bairdiella verx-crucis Jordan and Dickerson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXXIV, 1908, 16, fig. 1, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



2679. Nector alutus (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Pacific coast of Central America. 



Scixna alula Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 232, 

 La Union, Salvador. 



2680. Nector chrysoleucus (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Corvina chrysoleuca Giinther, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., VI, 1808 (Nov. 

 27), 387, 427, pi. 67, fig. 1, Panama. 



Genus 920. STELLIFER (Cuvier) Oken. 



Les Slelifires Cuvier, Regne Anim., Ed. I, 1817, 283 {Bodianus stcllifer 



Bloch). 

 Stellifer (Cuvier) Oken, Isis, I, 1817, 1182 (Bodianus siellifer Bloch). 

 Stelliferus Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., 1, 1828, 459 {Bodianus siellifer 



Bloch). 

 Homoprion Holbrook, Ichth. South Car., 1st cd. (mostly destroyed by 



fire), 1855, 108 {Homoprion lanceolatus Holl^rook). 



2681. Stellifer stellifer (Bloch). 



Coasts of Guiana and Brazil. 



Bodianus stellifer Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, IV, 1790, 55, Cape 



of Good Hope. 

 Corvina trispinosa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 



80 (109), Brazil; Cayenne. 



2682. Stellifer lanceolatus (Holbrook). 



South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States, Charleston to Texas. 

 Homoprion lanceolatus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, Ed. I, 1855, 

 168, pi. 23, Port Royal Sound, S. C. 



2683. Stellifer ericymba (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Panama. 



Scisena ericymba Jordan and Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., I, 1881, 

 311, Bay of Panama. 



2684. Stellifer microps (Steindachner). 



Coast of Brazil and Guiana. 



Corvina microps Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, I, 1864, 6, pi. 2, fig. 1, 



Guiana. 

 Corvina stellifera Gunther, Cat., II, 1860, 299, West Indies (not Bodianus 



stellifer Bloch). 



