102 SEBRANIM. 



rather large, protractile ; maxillary exposed, without supplemental bone ; 

 villiform teeth in jaws and on vomer and palatines; tongue with 

 patches of teeth. Prreoperculum serrated ; operculum with two feeble 

 spines. 7 branchiostegal rays. Two dorsals, contiguous or narrowly 

 separated, with 9 to 11 spines ; anal short, with 3 spines. Ventrals 

 a little behind vertical of base of pectorals. Vertebra? 2-5 (12 + 13). 



Coasts and mouths of rivers of the North Atlantic, as far south as the 

 Senegal, and Mediterranean, sometimes ascending rivers ; fresh waters of 

 North America (Mississippi and eastwards). Two species occasionally 

 ascend the Lower Nile and the Senegal. 



1. MORONE LABRAX. 



Perca labrax, Linn. S3 - st. Nut. i. p. 482 (17G6); Donov. Brit. Fisb. ii. pi. xliii. 



(1802). 

 Perca punctata, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1311 (1789). 

 Scicena labrax, Bloch, Ausl. Fische, vi. p. 52, pi. ccci. (1792). 

 Scicena diacantha, Bloch, t. c. p. 58, pi. cccii. 

 Perca diacantha, Bloch, Schneid. Syst. Ichth. i. p. 85 (1801). 

 Centropomus lupus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. iv. p. 267 (1802). 

 Perca elongata, Geoffr. Descr. Egypte, Poiss. pi. xix. fig. 1 (1809). 

 Perca sinuosa, I. Geoffr. op. cit. p. 316, pi. xx. fig. 3. 

 Labrax lupus, Ouv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. ii. p. 56, pi. ii. (1828) ; Yarr. Brit. Fish 



i. p. 6, fig. (1836) : Bonap. Icon. Faun. Hal., Pesci (1836) ; Kroyer, Danm. 



Fisk. i. p. 23 (1838) ; Costa, Faun. Nap., Pesci, pi. v. (1850) ; Giinth. Cat. 



Fish. i. 63 (1859) ; Steind. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xii. 1862, p. 496; 



Couch, Brit. Fisb. i. p. 189, pi. xl. (1862) ; Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) 



xii. 1863, p. 175 ; Brito Capello, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. i. 1867, p. 154, figs. ; 



Steind. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ivi. i. 1867, p. 606; Canestr. Faun. Ital., Pesci, 



p. 78 (1874) ; Collett, Vid. Selsk. Forh. Christ. 1874, no. 3, p. 15 (1875) ; 



Day, Fish. Gr. Brit. p. 8, pi. ii. (1880) ; Moreau, Poiss. France, ii. p. 333 



(1881) ; Liiljeb. Sver. Norg. Fisk. i. p. 55 (1881) : Mobius & Heincke, 



Fische Ostsee, p. 31 (1883) ; Doderl. Man. Ittiol. Medit. iv. p. 16 (1889). 

 Labrax elcngatus, Cuv. & Val. t. c. p. 77 : Giinth. t. c. p. 64. 

 Labrax vidgaris, Guerin, Icon. Regne Anim., Poiss. pi. i. fig. 4 (1829). 

 Labrax diacanthus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 110 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 



1865, p. 96. 

 JDicentrarchus elongatus, Gill, t. c. p. 111. 

 Labrax linnei, Malm, Goteb. Bohusl. Faun. p. 379 (1877). 



Dicentrarclius labrax, Jord. & Eigenm. Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. viii. 1890, p. 425. 

 Eoccus labrax, Smitt, Scand. Fish. i. p. 45, fig. (1893). 

 Morone labrax, Bonleng. Cat. Fish. i. p., 130 (1895), and Fish. Nile, p. 447. fig. 



(1907). 



