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Genus 504. GARRUPA Jordan. Black Groupers. 



Garrupa Jordan, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., Vlii, 1888 (1890), 353 (nigritus). 



1584. Garrupa nigrita (Holbrook). Black Jetvfish; Black Grouper; Hero de lo Alto. 



•South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, Charleston and Peu- 



sacola to Cuba and Brazil; straying to Sicily. 

 Se7-7-anus nigritus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, ed. r, 173, pi. 25, fig. 11, 

 1856, Charleston, S, C. 



Genus 505. PROMICROPS Gill. Guasas. 



Promicrops Gill, in Poey, Synopsis, 287, 1868 (guasa). 



1585. Promicrops guttatus (Linnaeus). Guasa; Spotted Jewfisli; Mcrou. 



Both coasts of tropical America, north to Florida and Gulf of California, 



south to Brazil. 

 Perca guttata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1758; after Marcgrave,Willughby, 



etc. 



Genus 506. ALPHESTES Bloch & Schneider. 

 Jlphestes Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 236, 1801 (afer). 



1586. Alphestes afer (Bloch). Quasefa. 



West Indies; Cuba to Brazil. 



Epiuephelus afer Bloch, Ichthyologia, pi. 327, 1793, Acara, in Guinea. 



1587. Alphestes multiguttatus (Giiuther). 



Pacific Coast of tropical America; Mazatlan to Panama. 



Plectropoma multiguttatmn Giiuther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1866, 600, Panama. 



Genus 507. DERMATOLEPIS Gill. 



Dsrmaiolepis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 54 {punctatus). 



Subgenus LIOPERCA Gill. 



Hoperca Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 237 (incrmis). 



1588. Dermatolepis inermis (Cnvier & Valenciennes). 



West Indies. 



Serranus inermis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 436, 1833, 

 Antilles. 



Subgenus DERMATOLEPIS Gill. 



Dermatolepis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, .54 (punctatus). 



1589. Dermatolepis punctatus Gill. 



West coast of Mexico; Cape San Lucas; the Venados; the Revillagigedos. 

 Dermatolepis punctatus Gill, Proc. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 54, Cape San 

 Lucas. 



Genus 508. MYCTEROPERCA Gill. 



Mycteroperca Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863. 80 (olfax). 



Subgenus ARCHOPERCA Jord.an & Everniann. 

 Archoperca Jordan & Evermanu, Fishes North and Middle America, 1171, 

 1896 (boulengeri). 



1590. Mycteroperca boulengeri Jordan & Starks. Cabrilla liaizer; Mangrove 



Grouper. 

 Mazatlan, Mexico. 

 Mycteroperca boulengeri Jordan & Starks, in .lordan. Fishes Sinaloa, 445, pi. 



38, 1895, taken in the Astillero at Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Subgenus TRISOTROPIS Gill. 



Trisotropis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 104 (guilatus=venenosus). 



1591. Mycteroperca venenosa (Linnanis). Pockjlsh; Yellow -finned Grouper; Bonaci 



de Piedra. 

 Bahamas, Florida Keys, and southward. 

 Perca venenosa Linuajus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 292, 1758, Bahamas ; after Catcsby. 



