Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1579 



Labrus americanus, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER, Syst. Ichth., 261, 1801 ; after SCHOPF. 



Labrus tautoga, MITGHILL, Traus. Am. Phil. Soc. 1815, 399, Long Island ; Rhode Island 



Cape Cod ; Sandy Hook. 



Labrus tautoga fnxca, MITCHILL, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1815, 402, New York. 

 Labrus tautoga rubens, MITCHILL, I. c., 1815, 402, New York. 

 Labrus tautoga alia, MITCHILL, I. c., 1815, 402, New York. 



Tautoga tessellata, CUVIER *fc VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xm, 315, 1839; after BLOCK. 

 Tautoga aniericana,DE KAY, New York Fauna: Fishes, 175, pi. 14, fig. 39, 1842; STORER, 



Hist. Fish. Mass., 276, 1867. 

 Tautoga onitix, Gi'M'iiKR, Cat., iv, 88, 1862; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S.Nat. Mus. 1878, 



374; BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 87; JORDAN <fc GILBERT, Synopsis, 600, 1883; 



GOODE, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 268, 1884. 

 Hiatula onitis, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 936, 1883 ; JORDAN, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1886, 



28; JORDAN, Keviow Labroid Fishes, 625, 1890. 

 lliatula hiatula, GOODE & BEAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 201 ; note on typo of Labrus 



hiatula. 



630. LACHNOLAIMUS, (Jiivicr A Valenciennes. 

 (CAPITAINES.) 



Lachnolaimus, CUVIER \ VALKNCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss... xm, 274, 1839 (aigula=maxi- 



mus). 

 Lach')iol(ciniii>, ( ir.vniKi: ; corrected spelling. 



Body strongly compressed, the back sharp and elevated, the profile long 

 and steep. Snout sharp; mouth low, horizontal, the jaws narrow; pre- 

 maxillary slipping under the meinbranaceous edge of the very broad pre- 

 orbital, which is twice the depth of the eye. Teeth in front prominent, 

 canine-like, in a single series; no posterior canines. Cheeks and opercles 

 with imbricate scales; scales of moderate size, thin, adherent ; lateral line 

 complete. Dorsal with 14 spines, the first 3 strong, falcate, produced in 

 long streamers in the adult, the membranes between these spines very 

 low, the filamentous tips longer than the head; other spines all low, grad- 

 ually shorter to the eleventh; second dorsal and anal much produced; 

 caudal lobes falcate ; third anal spine strong ; pectorals and ventrals short. 

 This genus contains a single species, a large, showy fish of tropical Amer- 

 ica, remarkable for the long streamer-like filaments on the dorsal spines. 

 (hdxvrj down, velvet; Acn/*dc, throat, the pharyngeal bones being only 

 partly provided with teeth, and the rest of their surface with a velvety 

 membrane. ) 



1986. LACHNOLAIMUS MAXIMUS (Walbaura). 

 (HoGFiSH ; CAPITAINE ; PERRO PERRO.) 



Head 3 ; depth 2. D. XIV, 11 or 12 ; A. Ill, 11 ; eye 4 in head ; snout 2; 

 filamentous dorsal spines longer than head; pectoral ! in head, equal 

 to ventrals; highest dorsal ray 1; third anal spine 2; longest anal rays 

 H; scales 8-39-13. 



Body deep, strongly compressed, the back much elevated, the profile 

 long and steep, slightly concave before eye ; snout sharp ; maxillary reach- 

 ing to anterior origin of pupil; canine teeth prominent; 4 sharp canines 

 in front of upper jaw, 2 in the sides of lower jaw, 2 small conical teeth 

 between them; filamentous dorsal spine reaching to last rays of soft 



