522 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



122. ARCHOSARGUS PROBATOCEPHALUS. 



(Sheepshead; Sargo Raiado.) 



Sparus Sheepshead, Schiipf, "Scluifteii tier Gcsellsch. Natf. Freumle, viii, 152," 1788 

 (New York). 



Sjjartia prohatocepkalus Wcalbaum, Artedi, rise, 295, 1792 (based on Schiipf ). 



Areliuaargus prohatocvphaluH, Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast North Aiiicriea, 27, 1873; 

 Uliler cV Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 103, 1871 (Maryland); Jordan & 

 Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M, 1878, 379 (Beaufort); Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. 

 N. M. 1879, 133 (Pensacola); Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880,22 (St. Johns 

 River) ; Bean, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 95 (St. Johns River) ; Goode Sl Beau, 

 Proc. U. S. N. M. 1885, 208; Eig.^nnianu & Hughes, loc. cit., 1887, 68. 



Diplodus prohatocephahts, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 278 (Pensacola); 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Proc.U. S. N. M. 1882, G05 (Charleston) ; Jordan & Gilbert, 

 Syn. Fish. North America, 558, 1883; Bean, Internat. Fish. P'xhib. London, 

 57, 1883 (Matauzas River Inlet, Florida) ; Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884, 

 128 (Key West) ; Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884, 232 (Cedar Keys) ; 

 Jordan & Meek, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1884, 237 (Jacksonville, Fla.) ; Henshall, 

 Florida, 239, 1884 (east and west coast, Florida Keys) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. 

 N. A., 91, No. 1066, 1885; Gill, Standard Nat. Hist., in, 220, lig. 125, 1885; 

 Goode, Hist. A(inat. Animals, 381, plates 130 and 131, 1886; Jordan, Proc. 

 U. S. N. M. 1886, 27 (Beaufort, N. C). 



Sparus ovicephalus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 280, 1801 (based on Schiipf). 



Sargus ovicephalus, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860,20 (name only); Gill, Cat. 

 Fish. East Coast, 31, 1861 (name only). 



Sargus oris, Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y., i, 392, plate 2, fig. 5, 1814 (New- 

 York) ; Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 53, 1830 (New Orleans) ; DeKay, 

 Fishes, New York, 89, pi. 8, fig. 23, 1842 (New York); Storer, Synopsis 

 Fishes North America, 332, 1846 (copied); Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 

 I, 447, 18.59 (North America); Holbrook, "Ichth. S. Carolina, 54, i>late 8, 

 fig. 2," 1860 (South Carolina); Storer, Fishes Mass., 126, plate 10, fig. 1, 

 1867 (New Bedford). 



Habitat : Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States ; Cape Cod 

 to Florida Keys and Texas. 



Etymology: Trpofiarov, slieep; x£<paXrj, head. 



The numerous specimens examined by us are chiefly from Florida. 

 Th(». species is one of the most common and most valuable of the food- 

 lishes of our Atlantic coast. 



123. ARCHOSARGUS ARIES. 



Sargus aries Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, .58, 1830 (Rio Janeiro, Maracaibo); 

 Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., i, 449, 1859 (copied); Giinther, Fishes 

 Cent. America, 386, 1864 (Belize). 

 Archosargns probatocephalus aries Eigennumn A; Hughes, 1. c, 1887,69. 



Etymology: Aries, the ram. 



This species is unknown to us except through the published descrip- 

 tions above refened to, and through the manuscript notes of Dr. Jor- 

 dan on the type of Cuv. «S: Val. It would api)ear to be closely allied to 

 J), probatocephalus, distinguishable only by the slightly narrower teeth 

 and possibly larger scales. It is probably to be regarded as a geo- 

 graphical variety or southern representative of t he common sheepshead. 



