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83. MICROPOGON UNDULATUS. 
(THE CROAKER.) 
[Plate VII. ] 
Perca undulata Linneus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 483, 1766 (South Carolina). Bloch & 
Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 87, 1801. 
Micropogon undulatus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 219, 1830 (New Orleans), 
Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 325, 1846 (copied). Holbrook, Ichth. 8. 
Carolina, 145, plate 21, fig. 2,°1856 (South Carolina). Girard, U. 8. & 
Mex. Bound, Survey, 18, plate xii, 1859 (mouth Rio Grande, Indianola, Gal- 
veston, Saint Joseph’s Island, Texas). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 271, 
1860 (in part) (New York). DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 84, 1862 (New 
York). Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 102, 1876 (southern part Chesa- 
peake Bay). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 378 (Beaufort). 
Goode, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 115 (Saint John’s River, Florida). Goode & 
Bean, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1879, 132 (Pensacola). Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
“Mas., 1880, 94 (Saint John’s River, Florida). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., 1882, 282 (Pensacola; Galveston). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., 1882, 606 (Charleston). Bean, Internat. Fishery Exhib. Berlin, 56, 
1883 (Arlington, Florida). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North Am., 575, 
1883. Jordan, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1884, 36 (Pensacola). Goode, Hick, 
Aquat. Anim., 378, plate 128, 1884 (Newbee, R,I., and southward). Goode 
& Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 1885, 202, Linnwan types (South Carolina). 
Sciena croker Lacépéde, Hist. Nat. Poiss. ., iv, 309, 314, 316, 1802 (Carolina). 
Bodianus costatus Mitchill, Trans, Lit. and Phil. Soc. New York, 417, 1815 (New 
York), 
Micropogon costatus DeKay, New York ‘Fauna, Fishes, 83, plate 72, fig. 230, 1842 (New 
York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 325, 1846 (copied). 
Habitat.—South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, Cape 
Cod to Texas. 
This species is generally common along our Atlantic coast, becoming ~ 
very abundant southward, but not extending into the West Indies. It 
is a food-fish of some importance. 
84. MICROPOGGN FURNIERI. 
(VERRUGATO. ) 
Umbrina furnieri* Desmarest, Premitre Déoaie Ichthyol., 22, plate ii, fig. 3, 1823 
(Cuba). 
Micropogon furniert Jordan, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mas. , 1884, 37 (Havana). Bean & 
Dresel, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 157 (Jamaica). Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., 1886, 44 (Havana). 
Sciana opercularis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uran., Zool., 347, 1824 (Rio Janeiro), 
Micropogon lineatus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 215, plate 119 (Brazil; Porto 
Rico; Havana). 
Micropogon argenteus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 218 (Surinam). 
Micropogon undulatus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 271, 1860 (in part; not Perca un- 
dulata L.) (Surinam ; Bahia; Guatemala ; Gane: Taare Giinther, Fishes 
Central America, 387, 1869 (Atlantic coast of Central America). Poey, Synop- 
sis, 325, 1868 (Cuba). Poey, Enumeratio, 48, 1875 (Cuba). Giinther, An. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1880 (Rio Plata), Poey, Fauna Puerto-Riquefia, 325, 
1881 (Porto Rico). 
* This § species, although named for its discoy erer, Marcellin Fournier, is always 
written furnieri by Desmarest, 


