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Genus 577. PLAGIOSCION Gill. 

 Plagioscion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 82 (a generic description 

 only, uo species or type being indicated). 



1826. Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel). 



Rivers of Guiana and Brazil; generally common southward. 

 Sciama squamosissima Heckel, Aunalen des Wiener Museum, ii, 438, 1840, 

 Amazon River. 



1827. Plagioscion surinamensis (Bleeker). 



Rivers of Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia. 



Pseudosci(vna surinaDtcnsis Bleeker, Arch. N6erl. Sci. Exact, et Nat., viii. 

 1873, 458, 18, Surinam. 



1828. Plagioscion heterolepis (Bleeker). 



Surinam. 



Johnius heterolepis Bleeker, Arch. Neerl., viii, 1873, with plate, Surinam. 



Genus 578. LAEIMUS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Larimus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 145, 1830 (breviceps). 



1829. Larimus argenteus (Gill). 



Panama, locally common. 



Amhlyscion argenteus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 165, west coast Cen- 

 tral America. 



1830. Larimus effulgens Gilbert. 



Pacific Coast of Mexico, Sonora to Panama. 



Larimus effulgens Gilbert MS., 1896, San Juan Lagoon, Sonora. 



1831. Larimus acclivis Jordan & Bristol. 



AVest coast of Mexico and Central America, from Sonora to Panama, 

 Larimus acclivis Jordan & Bristol, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1896, San Juan 

 Lagoon, Sonora. 



1832. Larimus breviceps Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



West Indies, south to Brazil. 



Larimus breviceps Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 146, pi. 140, 

 1830, Brazil; San Domingo. 



1833. Larimus pacificus Jordan & Bollman. 



Pacific Ocean, off coast of Colombia. 



Larimus pacificus Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 161, Alba- 

 tross Station 2802, 8^ 38' N., 79^ 31' 30" W., between Galapagos Islands 

 aud Panama. 



1834. Larimus fasciatus Holbrook. 



South Atlantic Coast of tbe United States, from Chesapeake Bay to Gal- 

 veston, Texas; not common. 



Larimus fasciatus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, 153, pi. 22, fig. 1, 1860, 

 Charleston, S. C. 



Genus 579. ODONTOSCION Gill. 



Odonioscion Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 18 (dentex). 



1835. Odontoscion dentex (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Corvina. 



West Indies. 



Corvina dentex Cuvier &. Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 139, pi. 109, 1830, 

 San Domingo. 



1836. Odontoscion xanthops Gilbert. 



Panama. 



Odontoscion xanthops Gilbert MS., 1896, Panama. 



Genus 580. CORVULA Jordan & Eigenmann. 



Corvula .Jordan & Eigeumann, Review of Scisenida? Europe and America, 

 in Report U. S. Fish Com. 18&6 (1889), 377 {batabana). 



1837. Corvula macrops (Steindachuer). Vacuocua. 



Pacific Coast of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama. 



Corvina macrops Steiudachner, Ichth, Beitr,, iii, 24, fig, 2, 1875, Panama. 



