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29. EPINEPHELUS ASPERSES. 
Serranus aspersus Jen jns, Voyage Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 6 (Porto Praya, St. Jago in the Cape Verde ‘ 
Islands). ' 
Habitat. — Cape Verde Islands. 
Etymology. — Aspersus, speckled. 
This species is known from Dr. Jenyns’s account of a young example taken at 
Porto Praya. No one has since recognized the species. Jenyns’s account agrees in | 
many respects with E. Jiavolimbatus, and his species may prove to be the young of i 
the latter. i 
30. EPINEPHELUS GOREENSIS, 
Serranus goreensis Cuv. & Val. VI, 511, 1830 (Gorea) ; Jenyns, Voyage of the Beagle, Fishes, 1840, 5 j 
(St. Jago ; Porto Praya ; Cape Verde Islands) ; Gunther I, 133 (copied) ; Steindachner, Beitrage i ■ 
zur Kenntniss der Fische Afrika’s, 6, 1881, with plate (Gorea; Eufisque; Canary Islands). 
Habitat. — Coast of Africa and islands in the eastern Atlantic. 
Etymology. — Goreensis, from the island of Gorea, where the species was discovered. |{: 
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This species is known to us from descriptions and from Dr. Steindachner’s excel- v'i| 
lent figure. It seems to be nearly allied to Epinephelus gigas and to E. ceneus. 1 1 
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31. EPINEPHELUS CHRYSOTiENIA. ; 
Cerna chrysotwnia Doderlein, Ei vista delle specie del Genere Epinephelus o Cerna, 41, plate ii, f. 4, i 
1882 (Palermo). ,, 
Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea. ■, 
Etymology. — Xpt'O'd?, gold ; rarzt>/«, band. 
This species is known from Professor Doderlein’s description only. 
32. EPINEPHELUS CANINUS. ( 
Serranus vaninus Valenciennes, Webb & Berthelot, Ichth. lies Canaries, 40, 1836 (Canaries). 1 ; 
Cerna caniua Doderlein, Ei vista, Epinephelus, 1882, 26, tav. 1, f. 2 (full description- and synonymy). j 
Serranus cernioides Capello, Catal. Peix. Portug. Part III, 156 et Part III, 244, estamp. iv, f. 1, 1867 ■ 
(Portugal). I 
Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea ; Atlantic coasts of southern Europe and northern -i 
Africa. v 
Etymology. — Caninus, canine. - 
Our knowledge of this species is chiefly drawn from Professor Doderlein’s ; 
“ Rivista,” quoted above. 
33. EPINEPHELUS ALEXANDRINES. 
? Spams scirenga Eafinesque, Caratteri de Alcuni nuovi Genere, etc., 1810, 50 (Palermo). 
Serranus alexandrinus Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 281, 1829 (Alexandria, Egypt). ( 
Plectropomus fasciatus Costa, Fauna del Eegno di Napoli, Pesci, 1844, tav. vi, f. 1, 2, 5 (not Holocentrus \ 
fasciafus Bloch) (Naples). 1 
Serranus costw Steindachner, Ichth. Beitrage, VI, 11, 1878 (Mediterranean). 
Cerna costw or Cerna alexandrina ’Doderiein, Eivistadi Epinephelus o Cerna, 1882, 47, et seq. tav. iii, f. 7. 
Habitat. — Mediterranean Sea. 
Etymology. — Alexandrinus, from Alexandria, Egypt, where the species was first found. 
