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83. MICROPOGON UNDULATUS. 



(The Croaker.) 



[Plate VII.] 



Perca undulata Liunceus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 483, 1766 (South Carolina). Block &, 

 Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 87, 1801. 



Micropogon undulatus Cnv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 219, 1830 (New Orleans). 

 Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 325, 1846 (copied). Holbrook, Ichth. S. 

 Carolina, 145, plate 21, fig. 2, 185G (South Carolina). Girard, U. S. & 

 Mex. Bound. Surrey, 13, plate xii, 1859 (mouth Rio Grande, Indiauola, Gal- 

 veston, Saint Joseph's Island, Texas). Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 271, 

 18P0 (in part) (New York). DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 84, 1862 (New 

 York). Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 102, 1876 (southern part Chesa- 

 peake Bay). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S.Nat, Mus., 1878, 378 (Beaufort). 

 Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., 1879, 113 (Saint John's River, Florida). Goode & 

 Bean, Proc. U S. Nat, Mus., 1879, 132 (Pensacola). Bean, Proc, U. S.Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, 94 (Saint John's River, Florida). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat, Mas., 1882, 282 (Pensacola: Galveston). Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1882, 606 (Charleston). Bean, Internat. Fishery Exhib. Berlin, 56, 

 1883 (Arlington, Florida). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. North Am., 575, 

 1883. Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., 1884, 36 (Pensacola). Goode, Hist. 

 Aquat. Aniin., 378, plate 128, 1884 (Newport, R. I., and southward). Goode 

 &. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus., 1885, 202, Linnsean types (South Carolina). 



Sciasna croker Lac6pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 309. 314, 316, 1802 (Carolina). 



Bodianus costatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit, and Phil. Soc. New York, 417, 1815 (New 

 York). 



Micropogon costatus DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 83, plate 72, fig. 230, 1842 (New 

 York). Storer, Syn. Fish. North Am., 325, 1846 (copied). 



Habitat. — South Atlantic aud Gulf coasts of the United States, Cape 

 Cod to Texas. 



Tkis species is generally common along our Atlantic coast, becoming 

 very abundant southward, but not extending into the West Indies. It 

 is a food-fish of some importance. 



84. MICROPOGON FURNIERI. 



( Verrugato. ) 



Umbrina furnieri* Desmarest, Premiere D<3&n.-ie Ichthyol., 22, plate ii, fig. 3, 1823 

 (Cuba). 



Micropogon furnieri Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 37 (Havana). Beau & 

 Dresel, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 157 (Jamaica). Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 1886, 44 (Havana).. 



Sciosna opercularis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uran., Zool., 347, 1824 (Rio Janeiro). 



Micropogon lineatus Cuv. & Val., Hist, Nat. Poiss., v, 215, plate 119 (Brazil; Porto 

 Rico; Havana). 



Micropogon argenteus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 218 (Surinam). 



'Micropogon undulatus Giinther, Cat, Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 271, 1860 (in part; not Percy/ un- 

 dulatalj.) (Surinam; Bahia; Guatemala; Cuba; Jamaica). Giinther, Fishes 

 Central America, 387, 1869 (Atlantic coast of Central America ). Poey, Synop- 

 sis, 325, 1868 (Cuba). Poey, Enumeratio, 48, 1875 (Cuba). Giinther, An. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist,, July, 1880 (Rio Plata). Poey, Fauna Puerto-Riquena, 325, 

 1881 (Porto Rico). 

 * This species, although named for its discoverer, Marcellin Fouruier, is always 



written furnieri by Desmarest. 



