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2745. Isopisthus harroweri Fowler. 



Atlantic shore of Central America. 



Isopisthus harroweri Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXVIII, 

 1916, 402, Colon. 



Genus 948. NEBRIS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Nebris Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 111 (149) 

 (A'^. microps Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



2746. Nebris microps Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Atlantic coast of northern South America; sandy shores. 

 Nebris niicrops Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 

 111 (149), pi. 112, Surinam. 



2747. Nebris occidentalis Vaillant. Guavina. 



Pacific coast of tropical America. 



Nebris occidentalis Vaillant, Bull. Mus. Paris, 1897, 124, Pacific coast 



of Central America. 

 Nebris zest^is Jordan and Starks, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North 



and Mid. Amer., 1898, 1417, Panama. 



Genus 949. MACRODON Schintz. 



Ancylodon Cuvier, in Oken, Isis, 1817, 1182 (Lonchurus ancylodon 



Schneider) ; name preoccupied in mammals. 

 Macrodon Schintz, Das Thierreich, II, 1822, 482 (Lonchurus ancylodon 



Schneider) . 

 Nomalus Gistel, Thierreich, X, 1848, substitute for Ancylodon. 

 Sagenichthys Carlos Berg, Ann. Mus. Nat. Buenos Aires, 1895, 42 



{Lonchurus ancylodon Schneider); substitute for Ancylodon. 



2748. Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch and Schneider). Pescadillo del rey. 



West Indies; Guiana; Brazil; and Uruguay; rather scarce. 



Lonchurus ancylodon Bloch and Schneider, ed. Bloch, Svst. Ichth., 1801, 



102, pi. 25, Surinam. 

 Ancylodon jaculideiis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 



1830, 60 (81), Cayenne. 



2749. Macrodon mordax (Gilbert and Starks). 



Panama. 



Sagenichthys mordax Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, 

 1904, 121, PI. XVI, Panama. 



Genus 950. BUCCONE Jordan and Evermann. 



Buccone Jordan and Evermann, Check List, 1895, 394 {Cestreus praeda- 

 torius Jordan and Gilbert). 



2750. Buccone praedatoria (Jordan and Gilbert). Bocone. 



Coa.st of Panama; scarce. 



Cestreus prsedalorius Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XIV, 

 1886, 363, Panama. 



Genus 951. CYNOSCION Gill. 



Cestreus Gronow, Cat. Fish., ed. Gray, 1854, 49 (Cestreus carolinensis 



Gronow = Otolithus nebulosus Cuvier and Valenciennes); preoccupied 



in gobies. 

 Cynoscion Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 81 (Johnius 



regalis Bloch and Schneider). 

 Apseudobranchus Gill, loc. cit., XIV, 1862, 18 (Otolithus toe-rae Cuvier 



and Ya\encienncs = Cheilodipterus acoupa LacepMe). 



Subgenus CYNOSCION Gill. 



2751. Cynoscion acoupa (Lac^jp^de). Acoupa; Toeroe. 



Atlantic coast of South America. Brazil north to Venezuela; generally 

 common. 



Cheilodipterus acoupa Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 546, 

 Cayenne. 



Lutjanus cayanensis Lac4p6de, loc. cit., IV, 1802, 196, Cayenne. 



Otolithus rhomboidalis Cuvier, R^gne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 173, Ca- 

 yenne. 



Otolithus toe-roe Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 

 64 (72), pi. 103, Cayenne. 



