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Genus 941. lONCHIURUS Bloch. 



Lonchiurus Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 144 (Lonchiurus 



barbata Ji\och — Perca lanccolata Bloch), 

 Lonchurus authors, preferred spelling. 



2731. Lonchiurus lanceolatus (Bloch). 



West Indies to Guiana. 



Perca lanceolata Bloch, Nov. Act. Sc, Copenh., Ill, 1788, 383, India. 

 Lonchiurus depressus Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 144, 

 Surinam. 



Genus 942. POGONIAS Lacepede. Sea drums. 



Pogonias Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 138 (P. fasciatus 



Lacepede = Lafen<s cromis Linnseus). 

 Pogonathus Lacepede, loc. cit., V, 1803, 121 (P. courbina Lacepede). 

 Pogonathus Bonaparte, Ittiologia Generale, 1831 {Pogonias fasciatus 



Lacepede). 



2732. Pogonias cromis (Linnseus). Gray drum; Drum; Black drum; Drumfish; 



Banded drum; Big drum. 

 Atlantic coast of America; Long Island to mouth of Rio Grande. 

 Labrus. cromis Linnseus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, 479, Carolinas. 

 Pogonias fasciatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 137. 

 Mugil grunniens Mitchill, Rept. in part. Fishes New York, 1814, 15, 



New York. 

 Scixnafusca Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. See. N. Y., 1815, 409, New York. 

 Scisena gigas Mitchill, loc. cit., 412, New York. 



2733. Pogonias courbina (Lacepede). 



Guiana to Uruguay; rather common on coast of Brazil. 

 Pogonathus courbina Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 121, Rio de 

 la Plata. 



Genus 943. APLODINOTUS Rafinesque. River drums; Thunder pumpers. 

 Aplodinotus Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys., LXXXVIII, 1819, 418 {A. 



grunniens Rafinesque). 

 Amblodon Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys., 1819, 421, based on teeth supposed 



to belong to Ictiobus, later restricted by Rafinesque to Amblodon 



grunniens. 

 Eutychelithus Jordan, Man. Vert., Ed. I, 1876, 242 (Corvina richardsoni 



Cuvier and Valenciennes, an injured or deformed example of A. 



grunniens) . 

 Haploidonotus Gill, revised spelling. 



2734. Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque. Fresh-water drum; Gaspergou; 



T hunderpumper ; Lake sheepshead; Croaker; Bubbler; White perch. 

 Great Lakes to Texas; abundant in lakes and large streams between 



the Alleghenies and the Great Plains. 

 Aplidonotus grunniens Rafinesque, Jour, de Phys., 1819, 88, Ohio River. 

 Scimna oscida LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1822, 252, pi. 13, 



Lake Ontario. 

 Scisena grisea LeSueur, loc. cit., 254, Ohio River at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Corvina richardsoni Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 



1830, 100, Lake Huron, based on an abnormal specimen. 

 Amblodon concinnus Agassiz, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, XVII, 1854, 307, 



Tennessee River. 

 Amblodon lineatus Agassiz, loc. cit., 307, Osage River, Mo. 



2735. Aplodinotus neglectus (Girard). 



Streams of eastern Mexico from Rio Grande to Rio Usumacinta. 



Amblodon neglectus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., X, 1858, 167, 

 mouth of the Rio Grande; Rio Usumacinta. This Mexican form 

 apparently distinguished by larger scales (43 instead of 55 to 60). 



Genus 944. EQUETUS Rafinesque. 



E(jues Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, VII, 1793, 91 (E. americanus Bloch = 



Chxtodon lanceolatus Linna;us); preoccupied. 

 Equetus Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815, 89; substitute for Eques Bloch. 



