598 Chromides and Pharyngognathi 
coasts of England. Among these are Labrus bergylta, the ballan 
wrasse; Labrus viridis, the green wrasse; Labrus osstphagus, 
the red wrasse; and Labrus merula, the black wrasse. Acan- 
tholabrus pallont and Centrolabrus exoletus have more than 
three anal spines. The latter species, known as rock cook, is 
abundant in western Norway, as far north as Throndhjem, its 
range extending to the northward beyond that of any other 
Labroid. Allied to these, on the American coast, is the tautog 
or blackfish, Tautoga onitis, a common food-fish, dusky in 
color with excellent white flesh, especially abundant on the 
coast of New England. With this, and still more abundant, is 
the cunner or chogset, Tautogolabrus adspersus, greenish-blue 
Fig. 483.—Capitaine or Hogfish, Lachnolaimus falcatus. Florida. 
in color, the flesh being also more or less blue. This fish is 
too small to have much value as food, but it readily takes the 
hook set for better fishes. 
In the Mediterranean are found many species of Crenilabrus, 
gaily colored, each species having its own peculiar pattern and 
its own arrangement of inky spots. Among these are Crenila- 
brus mediterraneus, Crenilabrus pavo, and Crenilabrus griseus. 
With these are the small species called Ctenolabrus rupestris, 
the goldsinny, much like the American cunner, and the long- 
nosed Symphodus scina. 
Of the many West Indian species we may notice the Capi- 
