Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1221 



Dules Jlaviventris, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 113, 1829, Brazil; GCNTHER, 



Cat., i, 267, 1859. 

 Cfntrojiristis Immlifititis, BRisouT DE BARNEVILLE, Revue Zoologique, 1847, 131, Bahia; sent to 



Paris from the Museum of Geneva; GI'-NTHEK, Cat., i. 85, 1859. 

 Scrranux bi-uxiliemis, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, 533 (from typo). 

 Btmauu flavwemtri*, JORDAN <fe EIGENMANN, I. c.,406, 1890. 

 Serranus aurigu, BOULENGER, Cat., i, 287. 



513. PARANTHIAS, Guichenot. 



Brachyrhhms, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 236, (creolus = furcifer) (preoccupied in ento- 

 mology). 

 Paranllias, GVICHENOT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine-et-Loire, x, 1868, (furcifer = creobts). 



Body strongly compressed; snout short; maxillary broad, scaly, its 

 supplemental bone reduced to a rudiment ; teeth small, recurved, in nar- 

 row bands, 2 to 4 canines in front ; preorbital very narrow ; preopercle 

 serrate, with a salient angle; gill rakers slender and numerous; scales 

 small, ctenoid; lateral line complete, running high, the tube with an 

 ascending tubule on each scale; dorsal fin low, of 9 short spines, the 

 third longest ; soft dorsal low, long, like the soft anal, closely scaled at 

 base; anal short and small, its spines graduated, its rays III, 9 or 10; 

 pectorals long, obtusely lanceolate, symmetrical, with 20 or 21 rays; 

 ventrals long, close together, inserted behind pectoral; a fleshy ridge 

 extending backward from axilla; caudal deeply forked ; branchiostegals 

 7; frontal bones* with an anterior concavity for the reception of pos- 

 terior processes of premaxillaries and with a knob-like process on each 

 side behind iuterorbital area; supraoccipital bone extending forward to 

 between postfrontal processes; supraoccipital and parietal crests pro- 

 duced on the frontals to between orbits ; vertebrae 10 -f 14 = 24 ; pyloric 

 caeca 6 to 8. One of the most strongly marked genera. But one species 

 is known, a beautifully colored fish, inhabiting deep waters, (napd, near; 

 Anthias, a related genus.) 



1608. PARANTHIAS FURCIFER (Cuvier & Valenciennes). 

 (HABIRUBIA DE LO ALTO ; CREOLE FISH.) 



Head 3f ; depth 3 ; snout about 4 in head ; eye about 4. D. IX, 18 to 20; 

 A. Ill, 9 or 10; scales 12-120 to 135-35, pores 77 to 85. Body moderately 

 elongate, strongly compressed; the profile convex and the snout short, as 

 in Anthias; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye, 2'i in head; max- 

 illary broadened posteriorly, its surface scaled, as in Anthias, its distal 

 extremity i to f eye; teeth small, recurved, in a narrow band in each 

 jaw, 2 to 4 straight canines near the front of each jaw; preorbital very 

 narrow : preopercle finely serrate, with salient angle or enlarged teeth ; 

 gill rakers long, slender, and close-set, 12 -f- 20 in number, the longest 

 eye; scales small, closely and regularly imbricated, most of them strongly 

 ctenoid ; dorsal fin low, the spines strong, the third longest, 2$- in head ; 

 soft rays of dorsal low, scarcely higher than longest spine; anal short, 



*For an account of the skeleton see GUnther, Cat, i, 101. 



