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l)ay it is extremely common in summer and is sometimes known 

 ^s porgee. 



Genus micropogon Cuvier & Valenciennes 

 Body moderately elongate, compressed, somewhat elevated; 

 preopercle strongly serrate; teeth in villiform bands, the outer 

 TOW in the upper jaw enlarged; lower jaw with a row of minute 

 barbels on each side; gill rakers short, thickish; spinous dorsal 

 rather short of 10 or 11 stoutish spines; second anal spine 

 moderate; caudal fin double truncate;^ lower pharyngeals nar- 

 row, distinct, with sharp, conical teeth; air bladder with long 

 horns. A well marked genus, the species all American, allied to 

 Ophioscion and Sciaenops, but distinguished by the 

 presence of barbels; species all closely related, similar in form, 

 size^ and color. 



284 Micropogon undulatus (Linnaeus) 



Growlcer 



Ferca undtilata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. XII, 483, 1766, South Carolina. 

 Bodianus costatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 417, 1815, 



New York. 

 Micropogon^ Uneatus Cuviee & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 215, 



pi. 119, 1830, New York. 

 Jkicropogon costatus De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 83, pi. 72, fig. 230, 1842. 

 Micropogon undulatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. V, 219, 



1830; De Ivay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 84, 1842, extralimital; Holbrook, 



Ichth. S.^ C. ed. 1, 145, pi. 21, fig. 1, 1856; Gunthee, Oat. Fish. Brit. 



Mus. II, 271, 1860, in part; Jordan «& Gilbeet, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. 



Mus. 575, 1883; Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 368, 1897; H. M. 



Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 1897, 101, 1898; Jordan & Eveemann, Bull. 



47, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1461, 1898, pi. CCXXIA^ fig. 570, 1900. 



Body rather elongate, little compressed, its greatest hight 

 -equal to length of head, and two sevenths of total length with- 

 out caudal; caudal peduncle short, its least depth equal to 

 snout, and about one third length of head. Head long, two 

 sevenths of total length without caudal, the snout prominent, 

 obtuse, nearly twice as long as the eye, which is one fifth as long 

 ^s the head. Mouth rather large, nearly horizontal, the maxil- 

 lary reaching to below front of eye. Preopercle strongly ser- 

 rate, the spines near angle diverging. Dorsal fins nearly sepa- 

 rate, the spinous dorsal triangular, the first and last spinea 



