Jordan ami Ercrmann. Fishes of North America. 1139 



\rolitliri<ni <.///</< <'<>- is recorded from Juan Fernandez and about New 

 /calami, (-o/.rr. many; irpiuv, saw, from the numerous serrations on 



head and iius.) 



1536. POLTPRION AMERICANOS (Bloch & Schneider). 



i: Sr.'XF. BASS; CKRNIKR.) 



Head 3 : depth 2* to 3i. D. XI, 12; A. Ill, 8. Body robust, moderately 

 elevated : mouth largo, the maxillary reaching posterior border of eyes; 

 teeth in villifoim hands on jaws, vomer, palatines and tongue ; supraocular 

 region, supraclavicle, post-temporal, preopercle, and aridge on the opercle 

 spinigerons: dorsal fin low, with 11 strong spines ; caudal rounded ; anal 

 spines short, serrate anteriorly, the third much the longest; ventrals 

 largo: pectoral short. Color grayish brown, the caudal edged with white ; 

 young elouded with light and dark. This large fish is not uncommon off 

 the eoast of Europe in deep waters of 300 fathoms or more, the young 

 only swimming near the surface, especially southward. It is said to live 

 most abundantly about wrecks; hence the common name of wreckfish. 

 It reaches a length of 5 or 6 feet. A single young specimen has been 

 taken in the deep waters of the Gulf Stream by the United States Fish 

 Commission, but there is no other record from America. (Eu.) 



ommcontw, BLOCH A SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 205, 1801, PI. XLVII; (based on a 

 draw ing sent by Latham to Schneider representing some fish called in America "pirom;" 

 called Amphiprion (msiralis on pi. 47). 



..I wuMsitensis, Risso. Ichth Nice, 184, 1810, Marseilles. 



,!inn, CVVIV.K, in YAI.K\.-IKNXF>!, Mem. du Museum, xi, 265, PI. xvn, 1824, France; 

 Cvvirr, A- V.u i \.n\Ms, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 21, pi. 42, 1829; GCNTHER, Cat., i, 169. 

 Holoceulni* gulo, Risso, Europe Meridionale, HI, 367, 1826, Nice. 



ucouchii, TARRELL, British Fishes, Ed. 1, 12, 1836, Great Britain. 



Pvlyprion orygenius, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 632, 1883, (not Epinepheltis oxygencios. BLOCH & 

 SCHNEIDER, which is the New Zealand species). 



,o americaimf, JORDAN, Cat Fish. N. A., 83, 1885, (after Amphiprion americanus, BLOCH & 



i HER); Bor LENDER, Cat., i, 148. 

 PolyprioH centium, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 7. c., 342, 1890. 



497. GONIOPLECTRUS, Gill. 

 (SPANISH FLAGS.) 



<. r,n i . Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila , 1862, 236, 237, (hispeawm). 



Body short, deep, with very short tail, covered with small scales, the 

 lateral line running high, bent posteriorly. Mouth large ; maxillary with 

 a supplemental bone; dentition essentially as inEpinephelus; preopercle 

 with a large antrorse hook; opercle with sharp spines; posterior nostril 

 slit-like ; gill rakers long and slender. Dorsal spines 8 in number, low and 

 stout ; soft dorsal and anal short : anal spines strong ; pectoral rounded, 

 its upper rays longest. This well-marked genus contains a single species, 

 allied to Plectropomasmd. Alphestes, but -with a stronger opercular armature 

 than is found in any other genus. According to Poey, the skull " shows 

 a great affinity with HiipopJcctrus. Thus it is rounded above, the supra- 

 occipital crest is below the level of the frontals ; the other crests are low." 

 (yuvia, angle; -Af/K-rpor, spur.) 



