1400 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



571. BUCCONE, Jordan & Evermaiin. 

 Buccone, JORDAN & EVERMANN, Check-List, 394, 189G (prcedatorius). 



This genus is close to Cynoscion, differing from it chiefly in the form of 

 the mouth, which is large, oblique, the lower jaw less projecting and less 

 produced at symphysis; it is also very deep at l>ase, the articulation of 

 the mandible making a marked angle with the ventral outline; body much 

 more compressed than in Cynoscion, the lateral line more strongly arched. 

 Pseudobranchiai small, sometimes obsolete on one side. One species. 

 (Bocone, the Spanish name, from 'boca, mouth; Latin bucco, bucconis, wide- 

 mouthed.) 



1773. BUCCOXE PR.EDATORIA (Jordan & Gilbert). 



(BOCONE.) 



Head3|; depth 4; eye 7| in head ; snout 4jf. D. IX-1, 19; A. I, 9; scales 

 about 65. Mouth large, extremely oblique, the maxillary reaching con- 

 siderably beyond eye, its length 2-J in head; body robust, deeper, heavier, 

 and with the back more elevated than in any species of Cynoscion; anterior 

 profile depressed above the eye, so that the snout projects; snout short, 

 not very acute, head thicker than in other species, the interorbital space 

 equal to length of snout ; maxillary very broad, its tip 6 in head ; canines 

 2, short and stout; lateral teeth of lower jaw moderate; gill rakers 

 x-|-10, rather long and slender, the longest eye; pseudobranchi;r often 

 obsolete on one side; dorsal spines high, the longest 2^ in head; soft dor- 

 sal moderately scaly, the distal half of its rays largely naked; middle 

 rays of caudal produced; pectorals 1 in head; ventrals a trifle shorter. 

 Color pale, bluish above, silvery below; axil and inside of opercle a little 

 dusky. Coast of Panama. The types and cotypes, three specimens, the 

 largest nearly 2 feet in length, at Cambridge. Numerous others have been 

 since taken by Dr. Gilbert, (prcedatorim, predatory.) 



Cestreus prcedatorius, JORDAN & GILBERT, in JORDAN & EIGENMANN, Review of the Sciieni- 

 dte, 363, 1889, Panama. (Type, No. 10901, M. C. Z. Coll. Agassiz.) 



572. CYNOSCION, Gill. 

 ( WEAK-FISHES.) 



Cestreus, GRONOW, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 49, 1854 (carolinensis nebnlosus) ; preoccupied by 

 Cestreus, MCCLELLAND, Journ. Nat. Hist., n, 1851, 1842, an East Indian genus of gobies = 

 Prionobutis, BLEEKER. 



Cynoscion, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 18 (regalis). 



Apseudobranchus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 18 (tveroe = acoupa). 



Atractoscion, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 18 (cequidens) . 



Body elongate, little compressed, the back not elevated. Head conical, 

 rather pointed; mouth very large, terminal, not very oblique, the lower 

 jaw projecting, the symphysis produced, the angle at base of maxillary 

 not prominent. Maxillary very broad. Teeth sharp, not closely set, in 

 rather narrow bands; tip of the lower jaw without canines; upper jaw 

 Avith 2 long canines, 1 of which is sometimes obsolete; canines tapering 



