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the Caribbean Sea; namely Cuba, Jamaica, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Martinique, 
and Curacao. It also occurs at Bermuda. The present specimen was obtained by 
the Pensacola fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, exact location not being given. 
RELATIONSHIP 
This species is closely related in its structural characters to the other three deep- 
water snappers analyzed above. The rounded form of the anal fin distinguishes the 
present snapper. When the anal fin is broken it may be recognized by its relatively 
deeper oblong body. A good color mark which persists in preserved specimens is the 
jet black spot at the base of the pectoral. It is well to mention, however, that in 
the other three species there may be some black pigment of varying intensity at 
the base of the pectoral. 
NOMENCLATURE AND SYNONYMY 
Because of the characteristic jet black spot at the base of the pectoral this species 
seems to have been generally correctly identified. Goode’s (1876) aya from Bermuda, 
judging by the description of the characteristic color marks is apparently of the same 
species as our specimen. According to Bean (1906), (aya) blackfordii does not occur 
at Bermuda. Jordan and Swain (1884), basing their description on a specimen from 
Cuba, state "body rather slender.” This statement does not apply to the present 
fish and is unlike descriptions of other authors who mention depth of body. It 
may possibly be due to the size of their specimen, which was 8 inches, but in Poey’s 
figure of a young individual the body is not particularly slender for a snapper. As 
stated above (p. 270) Cope’s L. torridus may represent a specimen of this species. 
Mesoprion buccanella, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Nat. Hist. Poisson 2: 455 (Quarto ed., p. 344) 
1828. (Martinique; St. Thomas.) 
Mesoprion buccanella, Guichenot, Hist. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ed. by Ramon de la Sagro, 4: 156 (Spanish 
ed.), 1853. (Cuba.) 
Mesoprion caudonotatus, Poey, Memorias Hist. Nat. Cuba 1: 440 pi. 3, fig. 3, 1854. (Cuba.) 
Mesoprion buccanella, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 1: 198, 1859. (Cuba; Jamaica.) 
Mesoprion buccanella, Poey, Repertoria, Fis. Nat. Cuba 1 : 267, 1866. 
Mesoprion caudonotatus, Poey, 1. c. 2: 158, 1867. 
Mesoprion buccanella, Poey, t. c. p. 295 (Synopsis), 1868. 
Lutjanus buccanella, Poey, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 4: 101 (Enumeratio, p. 27), 1875. 
Lutjanus aya, Goode, Bulletin U. S. Nat. Mus. 5 : 55, 1876. (Bermuda.) 
Lutjanus buccanella, Goode, Amer. Jr. Sc. Arts (Ser. 3) 14: 293, 1877. (Bermuda.) 
Lutjanus buccanella, Jordan and Swain, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 7 : 445 (1885), 1884. (Cuba.) 
Lutjanus buccanella, Jordan and Fesler, Report United States Comm. Fish. 1889-91, p. 445, 1893. 
(St. Lucia.) 
Lutjanus buccanella, Diaz. Peces de Cuba, p. 55, 1893. 
Neomoenis buccanella, Jordan and Rutter, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 108. (Jamaica.) 
Lutianus buccanella, Bean, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Chicago (Zool. ser.) 7 : 57, 1906. 
Neomaenis bucanella [Sic.], Nichols, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 31: 188, 1912. (Habana market.) 
Lutjanus buccanella, Metzlaar, Rap. Kolonie Curacao, p. 63, fig. 23, 1919. (Curacao; St. Martin, 
West Indies.) 
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