1460 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



described from Rio Negro (Coll. J. C. Fletcher.) (Named in honor of a 



French naturalist, Fourcroi, who traveled in Brazil. ) 



Percafurcrcea, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 398, 424, 1802, Surinam. 



Corvina biloba, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 112, 1830, habitat not known. 



Corvina furcrcea, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 111, 1830. 



Pachy pops fur crceus, STEINDACHNER, Beitr. zur Kenntniss Scisenoiden Brasiliens, 7, pi. 1, 



1863; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, 1. e., 413; BERG, Ann. Mus. Buenos Aires 1895, 53. 

 Pachyurus furcrceus, STEINDACHNER, Ichtli. Beitr., vin, 12, 1879. 

 Pachypops biloba, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Notiz., 206, 1864. 



588. GENYONEMUS, Gill. 



Genyonemus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 87 (lineatus). 



Body elongate, moderately compressed, the back little elevated; head 

 oblong, the snout abruptly decurved ; eyes moderate, anterior ; preopercle 

 with a crenulated membranaceous edge ; mouth rather large, subterminai, 

 somewhat oblique; lower jaw with several very small barbels and with a 

 few large pores, the barbels so very small as to be readily overlooked, espe- 

 cially in fresh specimens ; teeth equal, in villiform bands, the anterior series 

 scarcely enlarged; first dorsal unusually long, with about 13 spines; anal 

 with 2 spines, the second short and feeble ; caudal emarginate ; pharyngeal 

 bones and teeth as in Micropogon; air bladder simple ; gill rakers slender, 

 rather long. Size small, (ylvv^ lower jaw; vrjua, barbel.) 



1842. GENYONEMUS LINEATTJS (Ayres). 



(LITTLE RONCADOR; KlNGFISH ; CROAKER.) 



Head 3 to 3i; depth 3 to 3f; eye 5; snout 4. D. XII1-I, 21 or 22; A. 

 II, 11 ; scales 7-54-10. Body oblong, somewhat compressed, the back little 

 elevated; profile little convex, rather abruptly decurved at the snout; 

 mouth subinferior, somewhat oblique; maxillarj? 3 in head, reaching pos- 

 terior margin of pupil, lower jaw included; teeth in villiform bands, the 

 outer series above slightly enlarged; chin with 5 small pores and 2 series 

 of minute barbels; preorbital f width of eye; preopercle with a crenulate 

 membranous border; opercle with radiating stride ; gill rakers short and 

 slender, 9 -f- 20 ; third dorsal spine highest, 1| to 2 in head ; first soft rays 

 of dorsal highest, decreasing in height to the last; caudal lunate; first 

 ventral ray produced as a filament, 1J in head; pectoral slightly longer 

 than ventrals; scales large, strongly ctenoid, those below lateral line in 

 horizontal series. Color silvery with brassy luster and black punctulations, 

 these forming faint, oblique dark lines along the rows of scales; fins yel- 

 lowish; a black axillary spot, usually conspicuous. Coast of southern 

 California; San Francisco to Cerros Island; generally common along the 

 coast of southern California. A food-fish of some importance, of good 

 quality, but soft and not keeping well, (lineatus, striped.) 



Leiostomus lineatus, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1855, 25, San Francisco ; GIRARD, P. R. R. 



Survey, x, 99, pi. 22 B, figs. 1-4, 1858. 

 Scicena lineata, GUNTHER, Cat., n, 288, 1860. 

 Genyonemus lineatus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 574, 1883; JORDAN &. EIGENMANN, I. c., 



416, 1889. 



