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GRAMMISTINAE.—Grammistes, Rhypticus. PRIACANTHINAE.— 
Priacanthus, Pseudopriacanthus. CENTROPOMINAE.— Lutes, Psam- 
moperca, Centropomus. POMATOMINAE.—Pomatomus, Scombrops. 
AMBASSINAE, — Ambassis. CHILODIPTERINAE. — Chilodipterus, 
Apogon. LUTSANINAE.—Lutjanus, Glaucosoma, Therapon,*Hoplo- 
pagrus, Etelis, Aprion, Aphareus, Odontonectes. | CIRRHITINAE.— 
Cirrhites, Cirrhitichthys. PENTACEROTINAE.— Pentaceros, Penta- 
ceropsis, Histiopterus. 
The number of recent species amounts to about 550, the 
great majority of which are marine. 
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Fic. 403.—Sea Perch (Serranus cabrilla). x3. (After Cuvier and Valenciennes. ) 
The earliest fossil form is Prolates, from the Upper Cretaceous 
of France. Morone, Serranus, Percichthys, Anthias, and Apogon 
are represented in Eocene and later strata. 
The range of the family is almost cosmopolitan; few of the 
Marine Perches descend to any great depth. Some of the species 
of Stereolepis and Epinephelus grow to a length of 6 to 10 feet. 
Several species of Serranus (S. cabrilla, S. seriba, S. hepatus), 
inhabiting the Mediterranean and neighbouring parts of “the 
Atlantic, and some Zutjanus are normally hermaphrodite. Some 
Chilodipterus and Apogon are remarkable for their nursing habits, 
the male sheltering the eggs in his mouth. . 
The curious genera Anomalops and Photoblepharon, of each 
of which a single species is known from the Malay Archipelago 
and the South Pacific, have been made the types of a family, 
Anomalopidae, the systematic position of which remains un- 
certain since the osteological characters have not been examined. 
