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Pogonias chromis Cuvier, Régne Animal, plate 29, fig. 1, 1829. Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. 
Poiss., v, 206, 1830 (New York; Montioyided’. DeKay, New York Fauna, 
Fishes, 80,1842 (New York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 324, 1846 (copied). 
Holbrook, Ichth. 8. Carolina, ed. 1, 112, plate 16, fig. 2 (South Carolina). 
Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Ming. 5h 3 270, 1860 (Lake Pontchartrain), Uhler & 
Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 98, 1876 Clasti Shore, Maryland). Jordan & 
Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1878, 377 (Beaufort). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc: 
U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 280 UPEREApistisg Galveston). Jordan & Gilbert, Proce. 
U.S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 605 (Charleston). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North 
Am., 568, 1883. Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 233 (Cedar 
Key). Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1884, 237 (St. John’s River, 
Florida). Goode, Hist. Aquat. Anim., 367, plates 121 and 122, 1884. 
Pogonias fasciatus Lacépede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, 137, 1802. Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. 
Poiss., v, 210, pl. 118, 1830 (New York). DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 81, 
pl. 14, fig. 40, 1842 (New York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 324, 1846 
Siapieial Girard, U. S. & Mex. Bound. Survey, 11, 1859 (Brazos Santiago). 
Holbrook, Ic hthyol. S. Carolina, 1138, pl. 16, fig. 1, 1860 (South Carolina). 
Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 270,1860 (copied). Giinther, Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist., July, 1880 (Rio Baas, 
Mugil grunniens Mitchill, Report in part Fishes New York, 16, 1814 (New York). 
Labrus grunniens Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 405, 1815 (New York). 
Mugil gigas Mitchill, Report in part Fishes New York, 16, 1814 (New York). 
Scicena gigas Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 413, 1815 (New York). 
Pogonias gigas Ayres, Fishes of Brookhaven, L. I., 260, 1842 (Brookhaven, L. L.). 
Sciena fusca Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., 409, 1815 (New York). 
b. Var. courbina. 
Pogonathus courbina Lacépede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 121, 1803 (Rio Plata). 
Habitat.—Atlantic coasts of America; Long Island to Montevideo. 
This species is common on the sandy coasts of the United States, 
where it reaches a very large size. It is probably the largest of all the 
Scicenide. It is a rather coarse fish, of no great value as food. 
There is no doubt that all the North American names belong to a 
single species, the form called fasciatus being simply the young. 
The South American form (courbina) is scarcely different from the 
Northern. We have examined specimens in the museum at Cambridge 
from Rio Grande do Sul and other localities in Brazil. We have found 
only the slight differences noticed in the analysis above. 
Genus XX V.—APLODINOTUS. 
Aplodinotus Rafinesque, Journ. de Phys., 1819, 418 (grunniens). 
Amblodon Rafinesque, Journ. de Phys., 1819, 418 (based on the pharyngeal teeth of 
A, grunniens, supposed to belong to a species of Buffalo-fish). 
Haploidonotus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, 102 (grunniens) (amended or- 
thography). 
Butychelithus Jordan, Man. Vert., ed. i, 242, 1876 (richardsoni=grunniens). 
TyPE: Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque. 
This genus contains a single species, a large coarse fish, confined. to 
the fresh waters of the United States. The genus differs from Ron- 
cador chiefly in ahs complete union of the very large lower pharyngeal 
bones. 
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