THE FISHES 



OP 



NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



BY DAVID STARR JORDAN AND BARTON WARREN EVERMANN. 



PART II. 



Class PISCES Continued. 

 Subclass TELEOSTOMI Continued. 



Order ACANTHOPTEEI Continued. 

 Group PERCOIDEA Continued. 



SPABIFOBM PEBCOIDS 



(With sheathing maxillary and developed axillary ventral scales.) 



Family CXLIX. LUTIANID^. 

 (THE SNAPPERS.) 



Body oblong or more or less elevated, covered with moderate-sized 

 adherent scales, which are more or less strongly ctenoid or almost cycloid.* 

 Lateral line well developed, concurrent with the back, not extending on 

 the caudal fin. Head large, the crests on the skull usually largely devel- 

 oped. No suborbital stay; mouth moderate or large, usually terminal, 

 low and horizontal. Premaxillaries moderately protractile, their spines 

 not extending to the occiput; maxillary long, without supplemental bone, 

 for most of its length slipping under the edge of the preorbital, which forms 

 a more or less distinct sheath, its form essentially as In the Serranidce; 

 teeth various, unequal and sharp, never incisor-like, some of them some- 

 times molar; vomer and palatines usually with villiform teeth, these 



* This account of this family and the other allies of the Sparidce is based on a prelimi- 

 nary review of the Sparidce by Jordan & Fesler, in Report TJ. S. Pish Commission 1889 to 

 1891, published in 1893, 421 to 544, plates 28-62. 



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