FISHES OF NEW YCTRK 583 



bay it is extremely common in summer and is sometimes known 

 .as porgee. 



Genus MICROPOGON Cuvier & Valenciennes 

 Body moderately elongate, compressed, somewhat elevated; 

 preopercle strongly serrate; teeth in villiform bands, the outer 

 row in the upper jaw enlarged; lower jaw with a row of minute 

 barbels on each side; gill rakers short, thickish; spinous dorsal 

 rather short of 10 or 11 stoutish spines; second anal spine 

 moderate; caudal fin double truncate; lower pharyngeals nar- 

 row, distinct, with sharp, conical teeth; air bladder with long 

 horns. A well marked genus, the species all American, allied to 

 Ophioscion and Sciaenops, but distinguished by the 

 presence of barbels; species all closely related, similar in form, 

 .size, and color. 



284 Micropogon undulatus (Linnaeus) 

 Croaker 



Perca undulata LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 483, 1766, South Carolina. 

 Bodianus costatus MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 417, 1815, 



New York. 

 Micropogon lineatus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 215, 



pi. 119, 1830, New York. 



Jiicropogon costatus DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 83, pi. 72, fig. 230, 1842. 

 Micropogon undulatus CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 219, 



1830; DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 84, 1842, extralimital ; HOLBROOK, 



Ichth. S. C. ed. 1, 145, pi. 21, fig. 1, 1856; GUNTHER, Cat Fish. Brit 



Mus. II, 271, 1860, in part; JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 



Mns. 575, 1883; BEAN, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist IX, 368, 1897; H. M. 



SMITH, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 101, 1898; JORDAN & EVERMANN, Bull. 



47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1461, 1898, pi. CCXXIV, fig. 570, 1900. 



Body rather elongate, little compressed, its greatest hight 

 equal to length of head, and two sevenths of total length with- 

 out caudal; caudal peduncle short, its least depth equal to 

 ^snout, and about one third length of head. Head long, two 

 sevenths of total length without caudal, the snout prominent, 

 obtuse, nearly twice as long as the eye, which is one fifth as long 

 .as the head. Mouth rather large, nearly horizontal, the maxil- 

 lary 1 reaching to below front of eye. Preopercle strongly ser- 

 rate, the spines near angle diverging. Dorsal fins nearly sepa- 

 rate, the spinous dorsal triangular, the first and last spines 



