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XXVI. LAGODON.* 
Lagodon Holbrook, Ich. South Carolina, 59, 1860 (rhomboides). 
Type: Sparus rhomboides lL. 
Ktymology: days, hare; cd, tooth. 
This genus contains a single species, very abundant along the Atlantic 
coasts of the United States. The essential character of the genus is in 
the form of the skull. 
ANALYSIS OF SPECIES OF LAGODON, 
a. Upper jaw with two rows of molars; dorsal spines, 12; second anal spine not 
longer than third; body elongate, elliptical; depth, 2 to 2} in length; head, 33; 
head flattened, muzzle pointed, profile not very steep; eye moderate, 14 to 14 in 
snout, 1 in interorbital, 4 in head; mouth moderate, maxillary not reaching to 
front of orbit, 3} in head; incisors 4, deeply notched; molars in two series in 
each jaw; dorsal spines all rather high, the highest about 2 in head; caudal 
deeply forked; ventrals short and broad; pectorals moderate, upper rays reach- 
ing past origin of anal; bluish above, paler below; sides with 8 to 12 golden 
longitudinal stripes and about 6 dark crossbars; a black blotch above pectoral; 
anal with a light margin; dorsal and anal each with a median golden stripe. 
DS xan VAS an lll: scales=10=65 to 701 sets eee = eee RHOMBOIDEs, 118. 
118. LAGODON RHOMBOIDES. 
(Pinfish; Bream; Sailor’s Choice; Chopa Spina.) 
Sparus rhomboides Linneus, Syst. Nat., ed. xu, 470, 1766 (Charleston, on a specimen 
from Dr. Garden) ; Schopf, ‘‘ Schrift, der Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, vit, 153,” 
1788 (New York); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1275, 1788 (copied); Shaw, ‘‘ Genl. 
Zool., 1v, 447, 1803.” 
Sargus rhomboides Cuyv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., v1, 68, pl. 143, 1880 (New York, 
New Orleans); DeKay, Fishes New York, 93, pl. 71, fig. 228, 1842 (New 
York); Storer, Synopsis Fishes, 333, 1846 (copied); Giinther, Cat. Fish. 
Brit. Mus., 1, 447, 1859 (Southern United States). 
Lagodon rhomboides Holbrook, ‘‘Ichth. 8. Car., 58, pl. 8, fig. 1,” 1860 (South Caro- 
lina); Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast, 27, 1873; Poey, Syn. Pise. Cub., 318, 
1868 (Cuba); Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast, 27, 1873; Poey, Enumeratio Pisce. 
Cub., 58, 1875 (Cuba); Uhler & Lugger, Fishes of Maryland, 104, 1876 
(Maryland); Goode, Fishes Bermuda, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, 1877, 292 
(Bermuda); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 8S. N.M. 1878, 378 (Beaufort) ; 
Goode & Bean, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1879, 133 (Pensacola); Jordan, Proc. U.S. 
N. M. 1880, 19 (eastern Florida); Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 22 (St. 
Johns River); Bean, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1880, 95 (St. Johns River); Jordan & 
Gilbert, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1882, 278 (Pensacola); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. 
S. N. M. 1882, 605 (Charleston) ; Bean, Cat. Fish. Internat. Fish. Ex. London, 
57, 1883 (Galveston, Texas); Henshall, Florida, 239, 1884 (east and west 
coasts, Florida Keys); Gill, Standard Nat. Hist., 11, 222, 1886; Eigenmana, 
& Hughes, Proc. U.S. N. M. 1887, 66. 
“In the synonymy and treatment of Lagodon, Archosargus and Diplodus we follow 
closely the paper by Eigenmann & Hughes (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, 65 et seq.). 
This paper was based on the material before us. 
