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Aurata (Cuvier) Oken, 272, ("Les Daurades" Cuvier), Oken, 1183; 

 type Sparus aurata L. 

 Equivalent to Sparus L., as restricted by Fleming. Later called Chryso- 

 PHRYS by Cuvier. 



Pagrus Cuvier, 272; type Sparus argenteus Bloch & Schneider 

 (Sparus pagrus L.). 

 Not Pagrus Plumier. 

 Dentex Cuvier, 273 ; type Sparus dentex L. 



Diacope Cuvier, 275 ; type Diacope seb^ Cuvier. 



Name preoccupied in butterflies (Diacope Hiibner, 1816) ; replaced by Gen- 

 YOROGE Cantor, 1850. Equivalent to Naqua Forskal, 1775, a name doubtfully 

 eligible. 



Serranus Cuvier, 276, ("Perche de mer ou serran") ; type Perca 

 CABRiLLA L. ("le Serran proprement dit"). 

 Serranus cabrilla is usually assumed as the type of the genus Serranus, 

 and therefore of the family Serranid^. But no species of the genus as thus re- 

 stricted is mentioned by Cuvier by scientific name. Cuvier, however, remarks : 

 "La Mediterranee en produit beaucoup dont les plus communs s'y confondent 

 sous les noms vulgaires de Perche de mer, de Serran, etc." This refers to Ser- 

 Sanus cabrilla and Serranus scriba. The first of these may be retained as type, 

 following general custom, although its scientific name is not mentioned. Other- 

 wise Holocentrus gigas Bloch & Schneider, which is explicitly mentioned, must 

 be taken, in which case Serranus disappears, as a synonym of Epinephelus 

 Bloch, and the name Sersanellus Jordan & Eigenmann, a sub-generic term for 

 Serranus scriba, would stand for the genus, as in Fowler's arrangement ( Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, 266). 



Plectropomus (Cuvier) Oken, 277, ("Les Plectropomes" Cuvier), 

 Plectropomus Oken, 1182, Plectropoma of Cuv. & Val. ; type 

 as restricted Bodianus maculatus Bloch. 

 Cantharus Cuvier, 278; type Sparus cantharus L. ("Les Canthares," 

 1815.) 

 Name preoccupied; replaced by Spondyliosoma Cantor, 1850. 

 Pristipomus (Cuvier) Oken, 279, ("Les Pristipomes" Cuvier), Oken, 

 1 182, (Pristipoma of Cuvier & Valenciennes) ; type Lutjanus 

 hasta Bloch. 

 Equivalent to Pomadasys Lacepede. 

 Scolopsis Cuvier, 280; type "le Kurite, Russell" (Scolopsides kurita 

 Cuv. & Val). 

 Called Scolopsides by Cuvier. 

 Diagramma (Cuvier) Oken, 280, ("Les Diagrammes" Cuvier), Oken, 

 1 183; type Anthias diagramma Bloch. 

 Equivalent to Plectorhynchus Lacepede. 



