Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 329 
2. Pristipoma coro, Cuv. 
Silvery, with eight transverse brown bands. The outer row of teeth conical; the four 
anterior, in each jaw, larger than the others ; no teeth on the palatine bones. All the head, 
except the jaws, scaled. The second anal spine is large and very stout. 
D.12-13. P.15. V.1-5. A.3-7. C.17. Length, 6 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Sciena coro, Bu., SHaw’s Gen. Zodl., rv. p. 538. 
Le Pristipome coro, Pristipoma coro, Cuv. et VAL., v. p. 266, 
3. Pristipoma fasciatum, Cuv. 
Of a grayish brown color, with eight or nine clouded, blackish bands, alternately wider and 
narrower ; oblique lines upon the back, and a longitudinal brown band upon the top of the 
operculum. Thirteen soft anal rays, of which the third is longer than the second. 
D. 12-16. P.16. V.1-5. A.3-13. C.17. Length, 5 to 8 inches. 
New York, Cuv- 
Le Pristipome a bandes (Pristipoma fasciatum, Cuv.), Cuv. et Var., v. p. 285. 
Pristipoma fasciatum, Banded Pristipoma, Dexay’s Report, p. 87. 
4. Pristipoma crocro, Cuv. 
Silvery brown. Dorsal brown, with a whitish line at its base ; the edge of its spinous 
portion blackish. The other fins brown. Upper jaw slightly projecting. Teeth very fine ; 
preopercular dentations delicate. The second anal spine stout. 
D. 13-12 or 14-11. P.16. V.1-5. A.3-7. C.17. Length, 6 or 7 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Called ‘‘Crocro,’’ at Martinique. 
Le Pristipome crocro, Pristipoma crocro, Cuv. et VAL., v. p. 264, 
5. Pristipoma bilineatum, Cuv. 
Length two and a half times its height. Golden gray, lighter beneath, more silvery upon 
suborbitars. Two longitudinal dark-brown bands upon the sides ; one arising upon the top 
of the head and passing above the lateral line to the posterior base of the soft portion of the 
dorsal ; the other, arising at the eye, passes through the centre of the body to the tail, where 
it terminates in a black spot. The anterior teeth rather stouter than the others. Second 
anal spine very stout ; the third spine as stout, but shorter. 
D. 12-15. P.17, V.1-5. A.3-9. C.17. Length, 44 inches. 
Caribbean Sea, Cuy. 
Called ‘‘ Luppé,”’ at Martinique. 
Le Pristipome & deux lignes, Pristipoma bilineatum, Cuv. et Vat., v. p. 271, pl. 122. 
2 cS Witson, Encyclop. Brit., Art. Ichth., pl. 300, fig. 3. 
