370 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1556. Centropomus ensiferus Poey. 



West Indies ; generally common from Cuba to Surinam. 

 Centropomus ensiferus Poey, Memorias, ii, 122, 1860, Havana. 



Family CXLVIII. SERRANID-S!. The Sea Basses. 



Genus 494. ROCCUS Mitchill. Striped Basses. 

 Roccus Mitchill, Fishes of New York, 25, 1814 {striaius = Hneatus). 



Subgenus LEPIBEMA Raflnesque. 



Lepihema Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 23, 1820 (clirysops). 



1557. Roccus chrysops (Rafinesque). White Bass; White Lake-Bass. 



Great Lakes region, Upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys, south to Washita 



River. 

 Perca chrysops Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 22, 1820. Falls of the Ohio. 



Subgenus ROCCUS Mitchill. 



1558. Roccus lineatus (Bloch). Striped Bass ; Eocl'fish; Bocl\ 



Atlantic coasts of North America from New Brunswick to Escambia River, 

 Florida; introduced by the U. S. Fish Commission into Sacramento 

 River, California. 



Scia;tia lineata Bloch, Ichth., ix, 53, pi. 305, 1792, " Mediterranean." 



Genus 495. MORONE Mitchill. White Perch. 



ilforowe Mitchill, Fishes of New York, 18, 1814 {rufa andflavescens); the genus 

 properly a synonym of Perca. 



1559. Morone interrupta Gill. Yellotv Bass. 



Lower Mississippi Valley north to Cincinnati, Terre Haute, and St. Louis. 

 Morone interrupta Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1860,118, St. Louis; New 

 Orleans. 



1560. Morone americana (Gmelin), White Perch. 



Atlantic Coast of North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina in 



brackish water, ascending streams, and frequently landlocked in ponds. 



Perca americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, iii, 1308, 1788, New York; after Schopf. 



Genus 496. LIOPROPOMA Gill. 

 Liopropoma Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 236 (aherrans). 



1561. Liopropoma aberrans Poey. 



Coast of Cuba. 



Perca aberrans Poey, Memorias, ii, 125, 1860, Cuba. 



Genus 497. CHORISTISTIUM Gill. 



Chorististium Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 236 (ruhrum). 



1562. Chorististium rubrum (Poey). 



Coast of Cuba. 



Liopropoma rubra Poey, Memorias, ii, 418, 1861, Havana. 



Genus 498. STEREOLEPIS Ayres. Jewfishes. 

 Stereolcpis Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1859, 28 (gigas). 



1563. Stereolepis gigas Ayres, California Jeu-fish. 



Coast of California, north to the Farallones. 



Stereolepis gigas Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1859, 28, southern California. 



Genus 499. POLYPRION Cuvier. Wreckfishes. 



Polyprion Cuvier, in Valenciennes, M^m. Mus., xi, 265, 1824 (cernium). 



1564. Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider). Wreckfish; Stone Bass; Cernier. 



Oft" coast of Europe; Gulf Stream. 



Amphiprion americanus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 205, pi. 47, 1801, 

 based on a drawing sent by Lalli;mi to Schneider representing some fish 

 called in America "gnom"; called Amphiprion australis on pi. 47. 



