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Bridge, is very darkly colored, due to intensity of black network and darker gray ground-color; blind 
side somewhat dusted over with brown specks, which grade into solid blue-black on caudal peduncle; 
caudal fin abruptly pale with few faint dusky dots; vertical fins very dark on blind side, rays paler. 
A specimen, 77 mm. long, from Aguadilla possesses 3 rays in each pectoral fin and is the only one 
of the collection having cross-streaks, of which there are about 8. 
An inhabitant of the West Indies, north to southern Florida. It. has been recorded from Haiti, 
Key West, and Cape Florida. This collection contains specimens from station 6063 (in Mayaguez 
Harbor in 75 fathoms), Fajardo, Palo Seco, Aguadilla, San Antonio Bridge, and San Juan. 
Achirus inscriptus Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica, 52, pl.l, fig. 4,1851, Jamaica; Jordan & Evermann, l.c., 2696, 1898. 
Monochir retieulaius Poey, Memorias, II, 317, 1861, Cuba. 
Fig. 108 . — Achirus lineatus. 
282. Achirus lineatus (Linnpeus). 
Plead 3.5; depth about 1.5; D. 49 to 58; A. 38 to 44; scales 75 to 85. Pectoral fin of right side only 
developed, of 4 to 6 rays, considerably longer than eye. Body with 8 to 10 narrow, vertical dark bars, 
these sometimes obsolete with age; vertical fins all with round dark spots, these usually especially distinct 
on caudal fin; some of scales of eyed side with black, hair-like appendages; pectoral fin with 5 or 6 
rays, about 3 in head, its length equal to distance from outer edge of one eye to outer edge of other. 
Color, brown, the young spotted with whitish, the adults sometimes with darker; body with 
about 8 narrow, vertical cross-streaks of blackish. 
West Indies and Brazil, Florida Keys to Uruguay; common and variable. Recorded from Jamaica 
and Cienfuegos in the West Indies and from both coasts of Florida. Specimens at hand are from San 
Juan market. Palo Seco, Boqueron, and Vieques, Porto Rico. 
Passer lineis transversis notatus Sloane, Jamaica, 2, 77, pi. 246, fig. 2, 1725, Jamaica. 
Pleuronectcs fuscus subrotundus glaber Browne, Jamaica, 445, 1756, Jamaica. 
Pleuronectes lineatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 268, 1758, Jamaica; based on Browne and Sloane; not or ed. XII, which is 
Achirus fasciatus. 
Monochir maculipinnis Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 88, pi. 49, 1829, Brazil; Poey, Fauna Puerto-Riquena, 341, 1881; Stahl, 1. c., 
166, 1883. 
Baiostoma brachialis Bean, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1882, 413, Apalachicola Bay and south Florida. 
Achirus comifer Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U.S.N.M. 1884,31, Key West. 
Achirus lineatus, Jordan & Evermann, 1. c. , 2698, 1898. 
