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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. 



Bodiamis costatus Mitchill, Ti-ans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 417, 1815, 

 New York. 



Micropogon lineatus Guvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 215, 

 ^ pi. 119, 1830, New York. 



Micropogon 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; Holbkook, 

 Ichth. S. C. ed. 1, 145, pi. 21, fig. 1, 1856; Gunther, Gat. Fish. Brit 

 Mus. II, 271, 1860, in part; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, TJ. S. Nat, 

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

 Smith, Bull. U. S. F. G. 1897, 101, 1898; Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 

 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1461, 1898, pi. CGXXIV, 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 e^^e, which is one fifth as long 

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

 lary 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 



