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7. LUTJANUS JOCU. (Dog Snapper; Jocii.) 



Jooit Parra, Desct. Dif. Piezas, Hist. Nat., i, 1787, tab. 25, f. 2 (Cuba). 

 Anthidsjocii Blocli & Scbueiiler, Syst. Ichtliy., .SIO, 1801 (based on Parra). 

 Mesoprion jocii, Cnv. & Val., ii, 466, 1828 (Antilles, Martinique); Poey, Rei»ertorio, 



268, 1867 (Cuba), 

 Lutjanus jocii, Poey, Synopsis, 292, 1868 (Cuba); Poey, Enumeratio, 26, 1873; Vail- 



lant &. Bocourt, Miss. Sci. au Mex., iv, 1881,? 129, pi. v, f. 19, synonymy 



much coufnsecl; Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884, 125 (Key West); Jordan & 



Swain, 1. c, 435; Jordan, Prpc, U. S. N. M. 1890, 319 (Babia) ; Jordan, 1. c., 



1889, 648 (St. Lucia). 

 Mesoprion litura Cuv. & A''al., ii, 467, 1828 (Cayenne, St. Thomas); .Jordan, I.e., 



1886, 524 (examination of type). 

 Mesoprion cijnodoii, Giiuther, i, 194, 1859 (San Domingo, Jamaica; not of Cuv. »S:, Val.; 



excl. syn.). 



Habitat: We.st Indies, north to Florida, Keys, south to Bahia. 



Etymology: From Cuban name Jocm. 



This species is about equally abundant with L. caxis about Florida 

 Keys and Cuba. The English-speaking- fishermen call it "dog snapper," 

 the Spanish ^^jocii.^^ The fishermen usually distinguish thejocu by the 

 presence of a pale area below the eye, but the only certain distinction 

 lies in the size of the scales. These are much smaller in L.jocil than 

 ill L. caxis. Mesoprion litura Cuv. & Val. is this species, as is also 

 apparently Mesoprion cynodon Glinther. In the synonymy of the latter 

 species several distinct species are confounded, as also by Vaillant & 

 Bocourt under the name Lnfjanns jocii. 



Specimens of L.jocil from Bahia and Maranhao are in the museum 

 at Cambridge. 



8. LUTJANUS CAXIS. (Schoolmaster; Caji.) 



f Perca marina 2>i)i»is branchialibus carens (Schoolmaster), Catesby, Hist. Carolina etc., 



1743, tab. 41(Bahamas; figure very poor, the pectoral tins omitted; may be 



L. jocti). 

 Caxis Parra, Descr. Dif. Piezas, Hist. Nat., 1787, tab. 8, f. 2 (Havana). 

 fl'erca apoda (" Forster, Catal. of Auiui., 21, MS. 1774 ; printed 1844), Walbaum, Artedi, 



Piscium, 1792, 351 (based on the Schoolmaster of Catesby). 

 Spams caxis Bloch &. Schneider, Ichthyol., 1801, 284 (after Parra). 

 Mesoprion caxis, Poey, Repertorio, ii, 269, 1868. 

 Lutjanus caxis, Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 293 (Cuba); Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 25; Jordan, 



Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884, 125 (Key West), (not of several American writers) ;. 



Jordan & Swain, 1. c, 435 (Key West, Havana) ; Jordan, 1. c, 1889, 648 (St. 



Lucia); Jordan, 1. c, 1890, 319 (Bahia). 

 Bodianus striatus Bhnh & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 335, tab. Lxv (West Indies; 



misprinted aJhosiriatns, p. 237; called B. fasciatus on plate). 

 Lntjanus aeiilirostris Desmarest, Preui. D6c. Ichthyol., 12, tal). 3, 1823 (Cuba). 

 Mesoprion ci/nodon, Cuv. it Val., ii, 465, 1828 (Martinique, San Domingo) ; Bocourt, Ann. 



Nat. Hist., Paris, 1868, 224; Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1886, 534 (examina- 



ti<m of type). 

 Mesoprion linea Cuv. & Val., ii, 468, 1828 (Cuba, San Domingo); Jordan, 1. c. 

 Mesoprion flavescens Cuv. &, Val., ii, 472, 1828 (Martinique); Jordan, 1. c. 

 Mesoprion albosiriatas Peters, Berliner Monatsberichte, 1865, 111 (on the type of Bloch 



& Schneider). 



