SPAROID FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 529 
Subfamily IX.—SCATHARIN ZZ, 
XXXV. BOX. 
Box Cuvy. & Val., vi, 346, 1830 (doops). 
Type: Sparus boops L. 
Etymology: #6, box, an old name of the typical species, still called 
Bogue or Boga in southern Europe. 
This genus contains one very well known species aoundant in the 
seas of southern Europe. It has been commonly referred to the same 
genus as the next species, but the elongate form of the body, the much 
larger eye, and especially the presence of 14o0r 15 dorsal spines instead 
of 11, seem sufficient for its generic separation. The name Bow has been 
almost universally used for both species, but that of Boops is older, and 
must take its place, as Blecker has shown, if the two are placed in one 
genus. "Under Boops, B. salpais the first species mentioned by Cuvier, 
and Bleeker has made this the type of the genus Boops. It is evident 
however, that B. boops was regarded by Cuvier & Valenciennes as the 
type of Bow. , This fact may justify us in retaining both names, Boops 
and Bow, rather than to invent a new generic or subgeneric name for 
Box boops. 
139. BOX BOOPS (L.). 
Besides the well known Bow boops, another species* of Bow has been 
erroneously accredited to the West Indies. The type of Bow carabaica* 
caine, however, from St. Vincent of the Cape Verde group and not 
from the West ‘Indian island of the same name. 
XXXVI. BOOPS. 
Cynedus Gronow, Zoophyl., 1763 (salpa) (non-binomial). 
Boops Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 1, 1817, 270 (salpa, melanurus, boops; restricted 
by Bleeker, Systema Percarum Revisum, to Loops salpa, the first species 
; mentioned by Cuvier). 
Cyneedus Gronow, Syst. Ed. Gray, 1854, 55 (onias=salpa; not Cynadus Swainson, 
1839 = Crenilabrus). 
Type: Sparus salpa L. i 
Etymology: bod?¢, boops, large-eyed, a name applied by Rondelet to 
Box boops. tis probably an error for 362. 
This genus as here understood contains one common Huropean 
species. 
140. BOOPS SALPA (L.). Mediterranean Sea and neighboring islands. 
* Box vulgaris var. carabaica Giinther, 1, 419, 1859 (St. Vincent). 
This species is said to differ from Lox boops in the slightly smaller scales, and by 
the presence of 15 dorsal spines instead of 14. As already noted (Parapristipoma 
viridense) there is an island called St. Vincent in the Cape Verde Archipelago as well 
asin the West Indies. There is no doubt, as already shown, that the type of Box 
carabaica came from the other St. Vincent, and it is doubtless identical with the 
common Boga of Europe. 
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