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PAGROS, Cuvier. 



Body oblong, laterally compressed, covered with large scales. Plead 

 large ; preoperculum entire, operculum not armed. Mouth small, ter- 

 minal and low. Anterior teeth in the jaws cardiform, the outer teeth 

 are large and accute, while the other teeth are small and slender. 

 Both jaws have generally two rows of molars. Vomer and palatines 

 are generally toothless. Posterior nostril oblong and larger than an- 

 terior. Fins strong, caudal fin forked. Air-bladder simple, pyloric cceca 

 few, cheeks scaly. 



Four species of this genus are described from our waters — Pagrus 

 major, P. cardinalis, P. lumifrons and P. ruber. But the presence of 

 the last mentioned species, P. rtiber Doderlein, is ambiguous. I can not 

 yet find any specimen, corresponding to Doderlein' s description, though, 

 he writes that it is often found in the market of Tokyo. P. cardinalis 

 and P. tumifrons differ in dentition from the type of Pagrus-. Besides 

 that difference, however, there is no special mark of distinction — in the 

 external characters, viscera, skeleton, etc. Therefore I classify these 

 two species in the genus Pagrus as the previous authors did. 



PAGROS MAJOR. 



(PI. IV) 



Chrysophris major, Temtn. et Schleg. Fauna Japon. Poiss. p. 7 1. pi. 35. Pagrus 

 major, Gunther. Catal. Fish. Vol. I. p. 470; Steind. unci Doderl. Beitrage z. 

 Kenntn. d. Fisch Japons. II. p. 19; Nystrom. Bih. K. Svensk. Akad. Handl. IV. 

 Afd. 13 Bd. 



D. 12/10. A. 3/8. L. lat. 57—60. L. transv. 8—9/16 — 17. 



Height of the body about 1 / 3 of the total length, the length of the 



head 1 / 4 ; the diameter of the eye is */ 4 of the length of the head. 



