. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 86. SERRANID^ EPINEPHELUS. 539 I jaw with two series of conical teeth, the inner the hirgest and movable; vomer and palatines with very small villiform teeth. Preopercle with fine (lenticulations on its posterior mar;;iu and some coarser ones at the aiifjle. Third and fourth dorsal spines highest, the first slightly higher than tiie second. Color not described. Head 2^-2§; depth S^. l>. XI, 18; A. Ill, 10; L. lat. 145; L. trausv. |^. {Ooode & Bean.) Western coast of Florida. (Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 86. SERRANID^ EPINEPHELUS. 539 I jaw with two series of conical teeth, the inner the hirgest and movable; vomer and palatines with very small villiform teeth. Preopercle with fine (lenticulations on its posterior mar;;iu and some coarser ones at the aiifjle. Third and fourth dorsal spines highest, the first slightly higher than tiie second. Color not described. Head 2^-2§; depth S^. l>. XI, 18; A. Ill, 10; L. lat. 145; L. trausv. |^. {Ooode & Bean.) Western coast of Florida. (Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ii, 1879, 141.) 976.âEPINCPIIELIJS Bloch. Groupers*} Merous. (Bloch, Tiliih. 1793; Bloch & 8chiii>i«ler, Syst. Iclitu. 1601, ^99: tj'pe Epincphclua ruber Bloch.) Body stout, compressed, covered with small ctenoid scales, which are often somewhat embedded in the skin ; 75-140 in the course of the lat- eral line; scpU-s of the lateral line triangular, cycloid; soft parts of the vertical tins generally more or less scalj. Top of cranium narrow, with the median crest only developed, the lateral keels being obsolete. Pre- opercle moderately senate behind, its lower limb nearly or quite entire, rarely with an antrorse spine; opercle with two strong spines. Mouth large; umxillary with a well-developed supplemental bone. Canine teeth few, large, in the front of the jaws; enlarged teeth of the inner series of each jaw depressible. Gill-rakers short. Dorsal spines usually Oorll, not filamentous, the last ones somewhat shorter than the middle ones. Anal spines 3, the second usually the larger; the number of soft rays 7-9. Caudal fin rounded. Pyloric cceca usually few (usually 1(V- 20). Species very numerous, most of them of large size, aboundint; in all the tropical seas, where they are aniong the most valuable food- fishes, (irztveipekoe:^ cloudcd; In allusion to a supposed adipose mem- brane covering the eye.) * Dorsal spines 11. a. Pyloric cwca less than 35. (Ep'mephelua
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