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Genus 504. GARRUPA Jordan. Black Groupers. 



Garrupa Jordan, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., viii, 1888 (1890), 353 (nigritits). 



1584. Garrupa nigrita (Holbrook). Black Jewfish; Black Grouper; Mero de lo Alto. 



South Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, Charleston and Pen- 



sacola to Cuba and Brazil; straying to Sicily. 

 Serranus nigritus Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, ed. i, 173, pi. 25, fig. 11, 



1856, Charleston, S. C. 



Genus 505. PROMICROPS Gill. Gtiasas. 

 Promicrops Gill, in Poey, Synopsis, 287, 1868 (guasa). 



1585. Promicrops guttatus (Linnfeus). Guasa; Spotted Jewfish; Mcrou. 



Both coasts of tropical America, north to Florida and Gulf of California, 



south to Brazil. 

 Perca guttata Linnseas, Syst. Nat., x, 292, 1758; after Marcgrave,Willughby, 



etc. 



Genus 506. ALPHESTES Bloch & Schneider. 

 Alphestes Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., 236, 1801 (afer). 



1586. Alphestes afer (Bloch). Quaseta. 



West Indies; Cuba to Brazil. 



Ephiephelus afer Bloch, Ichthyologia, pi. 327, 1793, Acara, in Guinea. 



1587. Alphestes multiguttatus (Giinther). 



Pacific Coast of tropical America; Mazatlan to Panama. 



Plectropoma multiguttatum Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1866, 600, Panama. 



Genus 507. DERMATOLEPIS Gill. 

 Dsrmaiolepis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 54 (punctatus). 



Subgenus LIOPERCA Gill. 



Lioperca Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 237 (inermis). 



1588. Dermatolepis inermis (Cnvier & Valenciennes). 



West Indies. 



Serranus inermis Cnvier & "Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ix, 436, 1833, 

 Antilles. 



Subgenus DERMATOLEPIS Gill. 

 Dermatolepis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 54 (punctatus). 



1589. Dermatolepis punctatus Gill. 



West coast of Mexico; Cap§ San Lucas; the Venados; the Revillagigedos. 

 Dermatolepis punctatus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 54, Cape San 

 Lucas. 



Genus 508. MYCTEROPERCA Gill. 



Mycteroperca Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 80 (olfax). 



Subgenus ARCHOPERCA Jordan & ETennann. 

 Archoperca Jordan & Evernianu, Fishes North and Middle America, 1171, 

 1896 {boulengeri). 



1590. Mycteroperca boulengeri Jordan & Starks. Calrilla Eaizer ; Mangrove 



Grouper. 



Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Mycteroperca boulengeri Jordan & Starks, in Jordan, Fishes Sinaloa, 445, pi. 

 38, 1895, taken in the Astillero at Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Subgenus TRISOTROPIS Gill. 



Trisotropis Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, 104 (guitatus=vencnosus). 



1591. Mycteroperca venenosa(Linn.'eus). Pockfish; Yellow-finned Grouper; Bonaci 



de Piedra. 



Bahamas, Florida Keys, and southward. 



Perca cenenqsa Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed . x, 292, 1758, Bahamas ; after Cateshy. 



