9.-A REVIEW OF THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF SERRANID^ FOUND IN 
THE WATERS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN AND CARL H. EIGENMANN. 
The family of Serranidev includes manj^ of our most important food fishes. The 
group comprises the various species popularly recognized as salt-water p rch and bass, 
the groupers, garrujias, hiuds, cabrillas, jew-fishes, together with the striped bass of 
different species which inhabit or ascend our rivers. Nearly a hundred species are 
found ill North .Imerican waters, and of these every one, according to its size, is 
valuable as food. Some of them, popularly kiiowu as “jew-fishes,” ai’e among the 
very largest of spiny-rayed fishes, and many of the smaller forms are remarkable for 
the brilliancy of their coloration. 
This present paper contains an enumeration of the genera and species belonging 
to the family of Serranuke found in the waters of America and Europe, together with 
the synonymy of each, and analytical keys by which the different groups may be dis- 
tinguished. 
An earlier paper by Professors Jordan and Swain (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, p. 
358-411) has served as the basis of our studies of the Epinephelimc, but this paper has 
been supplemented by the study of a very much larger amount of material, and the 
whole group of Serranidm has been brought under consideration. 
We have examined all the specimens of Serranuke now contained in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Massachusetts,* and all that are in the museum 
of the Indiana University. A large part of the material in the U. S. National Museum 
we have also studied, and also most of the original types contained in the museum at 
Paris and in the British Museum. 
We have been indebted to Prof. Alexander Agassiz and to Mr. Samuel Garman for 
the free use of the specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. We are also 
indebted to Miss Elizabeth G. Hughes for help in the compilation of synonymy and 
in the preparation of skulls. 
For all statements regarding South American specimens the senior author is 
alone responsible. 
From the family Serranidee, as understood by us, we exclude Centroponius, which, 
although certainly allied to the Latina:^ should, according to Dr. Gill, stand as a sep- 
arate family. The Lobotkke {Lobotc't) stand nearer, but having no teeth on vomer or 
palatines, they may be kept in a separate group. The Priacanthidee {Priacanthus and 
“Excepting the sub-family Latinai. 
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