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of preopercle finely serrate; gill rakers rather ^ew, shortish; soft 

 rays of dorsal and anal scaly at base; dorsal spines 10 (rarely 

 11), continuous with the soft rays; caudal lunate or forked; anal 

 rays seven to nine. Interorbital area not flat nor separated 

 from the occipital region, the median and lateral crests procur- 

 rent on it, and the frontal narrowed forward; fronto-occipital 

 crest ceasing anteriorly far from front of frontal, usually be- 

 hind eye; prefrontal with posterior areas impressed, long and 

 cribriform; parietal crest not confluent with orbital rim, but 

 nearly or quite joined anteriorly to fronto-occipital crest (in 

 species examined) ; prefrontals with the articular facets arising 

 from diverging Y-shaped ridges; basisphenoid with an anterior 

 lobiform extension. Vertebrae 10+14^24. 



270 Neomaenis griseus (Linnaeus) 



Gray Snapper; Mangrove Snapper 



Labrus griseus Linnaeus, Systi. Nat. ed. X, I, 283, 1758. 



Mesoprion griseus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, II, 469, 1828, 



San Domingo. 

 Lohotes emarginatus Baied & Gikard, 9tli Smithson. Rep. 332, 1855, Bees- 

 ley's Point, N. J. 

 Mesoprion caballerote Poey, Repertorio, II, 157, 1868. 

 Lutjanus calallerote Poey, Syn. Pise. Cubens. 293, 1868; Jordan & Gilbert. 



Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 921, 1883; Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. VI, 42, 1884. 

 Lutjanus stearnsii Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, 179, 1878, Pensa- 



cola Fla.; Goode, Fish & Fish. Ind. U. S. I, 396, pi. 142, 1884. 

 Lutjanus griseus Jordan & Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 439, 1884; Jordan 



& Fesler, Rept. U. S. F. C. 1889 to 1891, 441, 1893. 

 ISfeomaenis griseus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1255, 1898; 



H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 100, 1898; op. cit. 1901, 33, 1901. 



Body elongate, its depth about one third of total length with- 

 out caudal; back not much compressed; profile from snout to 

 nape almost straight; outline of back slightly convex. Head 

 rather large, four elevenths of total length without caudal; the 

 snout pointed, one third as long as the head; eye small, two 

 thirds as long as the snout, rather more than one fifth as long 

 as the head; preorbital broad, about as broad as the interorbital 

 space which is gently convex and one sixth of length of head; 

 occipital keel low. Mouth large, the jaws nearly equal in front; 



