Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North A met ica . 1641 



Sca 



nts truncatus, POEY, Synopsis, 339, 1868, Havana; POEY, Enumeratio, 114, 1875- POEY 



Fauna, Puerto Kiquefia, 308, 1878. 

 Searus circumnotatus,* POEY, Meinorias, 423, 1861, Havana ; POEY, Sjmopsis, 340, 1868. 

 ? Searus emarginatumj POEY, Synopsis, 340, 1868, Havana. 



2054. SPARISOMA BBACHIALE (Poey). 



Head 111 (I witli caudal); depth 2| (3$). D. IX, 10; A. II, 9; scales 

 2A-LM-6. Body moderately dee]); no canine teeth; lateral line ending 

 under last ray of soft dorsal and beginning again about 2 scales farther 

 forward, so that the two parts overlap; eye rather large, 4 in head- 

 snout r;i ther acute, 3; cheek with a single row of about 4 scales; 4 scales 

 before dorsal, 3 before veutrals; each pore of lateral line with 4 to 7 

 branches which cover most of the scale: I scales on median liixe before 

 dorsal. 1'ectorals reaching slightly past tips of ventrals; caudal fin mod- 

 erately lunate, the middle part a little convex when the fin is spread open, 

 the outer rays moderately produced, the upper lobe 1? in head. Color in 

 spirits, dark olive green above, somewhat mottled; paler below; a faint 

 greenish streak running backward from angle of mouth; jaws pale; no 

 distinct spots or stripes on body; teeth pale; dorsal dusky gray; caudal 

 mesially reddish, somewhat mottled, its posterior border bluish; ventrals 

 and pectorals pale, slightly greenish; a very distinct dark blotch at base 

 of upper rays of pectoral; the axil pale. Cuba. Here described from a 

 single specimen 7.1 inches long. In spirits its colors are quite different 

 from those of S. flacescena, though in other respects the two bear much 

 resemblance. (Latin, bradi'mm ; Greek, fipaxioov, the arm, from the 

 axillary spot.) 



Scanisbrachialix, POEY, Mcmorias, II, 345, 1861, Cuba; POEY, Synopsis, 337 (misprinted 



braquialis) POEY, Euumeratio, 113. 

 1 Searus humeralu, POEY, Memoriae, n, 422, 1861, Havana; based on old drawing; a black 



axillary spot, sown with white points. 

 Sparisoma frondosum, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 93 ; JORDAN, Proc. U. S. 



N"at. Mus. 1886, 47 (not Searus frondosus, CUVIER) . 

 Sparisoma brachiale, JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 673, 1890. 



LMKio. 'SPAKISOMA MASCHALESP1LOS (Blecker). 



Outer rays of caudal produced to about the length of the head; 

 a dark spot at base of pectoral. General color dusky red; fins yellowish 

 red ; caudal violaceous ; scales of the back and sides with many red spots. 



* Searus circumnotatus is thus described : 



4 ' Head more than 4 in total ; depth 3* ; eye 5 in head, 2 in snout, more than 1 in distance 

 to angle of mouth; venulns below and behind eye; profile regular, without depression or 



Erominence ; no pores above head ; no posterior canines ; scales of lateral line with 4 

 ranches; caudal truncate or with slight points at the angle; pectoral short, 6 in length. 

 Greenish blue ; dorsal and anal green, with brown points on the soft rays and on the caudal 

 membranes ; anal reddish with brown shades ; pectorals and ventrals vermilion, the latter 

 with translucent points ; no black spot in the axil ; some yellowish under the head." 

 t Sparisoma emarginatum is thus described: 



"Very close to 8. circumnotatus, differing in having the mouth lower and farther from 

 the eye, the back higher, the belly less curved, the form therefore less elegant; preopercle 

 slightly emarginate behind ; venulea less marked ; front of head with porous roughnesses ; 

 caudal truncate ; pectoral 5 in length ; no posterior canines. Greenish, with some brown- 

 ish" scales intermixed, the edge of each scale brownish ; pectoral pale, with cross series 

 of white points. Length 185 mm." Cuba. (Poey). 

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