518 Ki;roKT of commissioner of fish and fisheries. 



. XXVI. LAGODON.* 



Lagodon Holbmok, Ich. South Carolina, r>!), 18(>0 (rhomhoiden). 



Type : Sparus rhomhoidefi L. 



Etymology: /.ayi'i^^ liaie; «;'><«>, tooth. 



This genus contains a single si)ecies, very abundant along the Atlantic 

 coasts of the United States. The essential character of the genus is in 

 the form of the skull. 



ANALYSIS OF Sl'KCIKS OK l-AGODON. 



a. Upper jaw with two rows of molars ; dorsal spiues, 12; second anal spine not 

 longer than third; body elongate, elliptical; depth, 2 lo2:] in length; head, 3.^; 

 head liatteued, muzzle pointed, prohle not very steej); eye moderate, 1^ to 1\ in 

 snout, 1 in iuterorhital, 4 in head; mouth moderate, maxillary not reacliing to 

 front of orbit, 3J^ in head; incisors \, deeply notched; molars in two series in 

 each jaw; dorsal spiues all rather high, the highest about 2 in head; caudal 

 deeply forked ; ventrals short and broad ; pectorals moderate, up])er lays reach- 

 ing past origin of anal; bluish above, paler below; sides with 8 to 12 golden 

 longitudinal stripes and about (5 <lark crossbars; a black blotch above pectoral; 

 anal with a light margin ; dorsal and anal each with a median golden stripe. 

 D. XII, 11 ; A. Ill, 11 ; scales, 10-05 to 70-17 Ruumhoiues, 118. 



118. LAGODON RHOMBOIDES. 



(Pinfish; Bream; Sailor's Choice ; Chopa Spina.) 



Sparus rhomboides Linnjeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 470, 17(50 (Charleston, on a specimen 

 from Dr. Garden) ; Schiipf, " Schrift, dcrNaturf. Freunde, IJeiiin, vm, 153," 

 17«8 (New York) ; Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 127.5, 1788 (copied) ; Shaw, " Geul. 

 Zool., IV, 447, 1803." 



SarguH rhomhokhs Cuv. & Yal., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 68, pi. 143, 1830 (Ncav York, 

 New Orleans); DeKay, Fishes New York, 93, pi. 71, iig. 228, 1842 (New 

 York); Storer, Synoi>8is Fishes, 333, 1846 (copied); Giinther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., I, 447, 1859 (Southern United States). 



Lagodon rhoviboidcs Holbrook, "Ichth. S. Car., .58, i»l. 8, iig. 1," 1860 (South Caro- 

 lina); Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast, 27, 1873; Pocy, Syn. Pisc. Cub., 318, 

 1868 (Cuba); Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast, 27, 1873; Poey, Enumeratio Pisc. 

 Cub., 58, 1875 (Cuba); Uhlcr & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 104, 1876 

 (Maryland); Goodc, Fishes IJcrniuda, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1877, 292 

 (Hcrmuda); .Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N . M. 1878, 378 (Heaufort); 

 Goode A' Pean, Proc. U. S.N. M. 1879, 1.33 (Pensacola); .Jordan, Proc. U. S. 

 N. M. 18S0, 19 (eastern Florida); .Jord.in, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880,22 (St. 

 .Johns River) ; JJean, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 95 (St. Johns River) ; Jordan & 

 (Jilbert, I'roc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 278 (Pensacola) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 

 S. N. M. 1882, 605 (Charleston) ; IJean, Cat. Fish. Internat. Fish. Ex. London, 

 57, 1883 (Chilveston, Texas); Hcnshall, Flori<la, 239, 1884 (east and west 

 coasts, Florida Keys); Gill, Standard Nat. Hist., in, 222, 1886; Eigenmauu 

 »fc Hughes, Pn.c. U. S. N. M. 1887, 66. 



* In the synonymy and treatment of Lagodon , ArchoHargua and IHploduH we follow 

 closely the paper by Eigenmann & Hughes (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, &Jet ntq.). 

 TLiB paper was based on the material before us. 



