SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 517 



XXV. PAGELLUS. . 



Pagellus Cut. it Val., \i, 109, 1!S:?0 (eri/ihrinus). 



Type: /Sparu.s erythrinu.s Vnv. <s: Val. 



Etyiiu)l<»<'y: Freiicli, j>rt</t'/; a derivative or (limiimtivo of j^rtcyrc^ aud 

 PagvKs. 



This genus is very close to i^pani.s, from wliich it differs in no very 

 important eliaraeter, the skull and skeleton in the two being essentially 

 alike, and the only tangible distinctions lying in the weaker dentition 

 and more elongate form of Pagellus. The four recognized species are all 

 European, one being doubtfully accredited to the coast of Brazil.* 



The species are : 



113. PAGELLUS ERYTHRINUS (L.). Southern Europe, etc., north to 



Engliiufl. 



114. PAGELLUS ACARNE Ciiv. & Val. Southern Europe, etc., north to 



England. 



115. PAGELLUS CENTRODONTUS (De la Roche). Southern Europe north 



to England. 



116. PAGELLUS BOGARAVEO (Briiuuich). Southern Europe, etc. 



117. PAGELLUS MORMYRUS (L.). Mediterraneau .and neighboring 



waters; said to occur in Brazil. 



* ANALYSIS OF SUPPOSED AMERICAN SPECIES OF PAGELLUS. 



a. Color, golden silvery, witli seven narrow blackish crossbars, sometimes dupli- 

 cated. Body oblong, compressed; luouth very protractile, the maxillary bent; 

 eye 5 in head, Avhicli is a little less than depth of body. D. xi, 12; A. in, 10. 

 Scales 6-64-13 Mormyrus {pernumlticensis) . 



PA«ELI,US MORMYRUS. 



Sparus morniyrusJAniMens, Syst. Nat., 1758, ed. x. 



Pagellus mormyrus Cuv. &, Val., VI, 200, .ind of ne.irly all European anthor.s. 



PagMug goreensis Cuv. & V.il., vi, 203, 18.'i0 (Gorea), 



Pagellus pernamhucensls Cuv. & Val., VI, 216, 1830 (PernambucoO. 



Habitat: Mediterraneau Sea .and neighboring coasts; .ascribed on very doubtful 

 authority to America. 



Etym(dogy : Mormyrus, f^iop/.ivfjo'i, a name given by Aristotle to this species. 



The claim of this species to a place aunrng American fishes is the presence in the 

 Museum of Berlin of a stuffed example, received by Bloch from " Fernambouc," and 

 bearing the lal)el " Spariis jn'rnambiicoisiff." Giiuther mentions three specimens iu 

 the British Museum from "St. Vincent," collected by McGillivray. As already 

 noticed, there is an island St. Vincent in the Cape Verde group where this species 

 is conunou, as well as one among the Lesser Antilles, where it has not yet been taken. 

 The specimens of McGillivray came from the Capo Verde Island of St. Vincent. 

 The occurrence of any PaytUuH in America is yet to be verified. 



