[Illustration: FIG. 271.—_Hoplopagrus guntheri_ Gill. Mazatlan. ] [Illustration: FIG. 272.—Lane Snapper or Biajaiba, _Lutianus synagris_ (Linnæus). Key West. ] A related species is the _Lutianus analis_, the mutton snapper or pargo criollo of the West Indies. This is one of the staple fishes of the Havana market, always in demand for banquets and festivals, because its flesh is never unwholesome. The mangrove snapper, or gray-snapper, _Lutianus griseus_, called in Cuba, Caballerote, is the commonest species on our coasts. The common name arises from the fact that the young hide in the mangrove bushes of Florida and Cuba, whence they sally out in pursuit of sardines and other small fishes. It is a very wary fish, to be sought with care, hence the name "lawyer," sometimes heard in Florida. The cubero (_Lutianus cyanopterus_) is a very large snapper, often rejected as unwholesome, being said to cause the disease known as ciguatera. Certain snappers in Polynesia have a similar reputation. The large red mumea, _Lutianus bohar_, is regarded as always poisonous in Samoa—the most dangerous fish of the islands. _L. leioglossus_ is also held under suspicion on Tutuila, though other fishes of this type are regarded as always safe. Other common snappers of Florida and Cuba are the dog snapper or jocu (_Lutianus jocu_), the schoolmaster or cají (_Lutianus apodus_), the black-fin snapper or sese de lo alto (_Lutianus buccanella_), the silk snapper or pargo de lo alto (_Lutianus vivanus_), the abundant lane snapper or biajaiba (_Lutianus synagris_), and the mahogany snapper or ojanco (_Lutianus mahogani_). Numerous other species occur on both coasts of tropical America, and a vastly larger assemblage is found in the East Indies, some of them ranging northward to Japan. [Illustration: FIG. 273.—Yellow-tail Snapper, _Ocyurus chrysurus_ (Linnæus). Key West. ] [Illustration: FIG. 274.—Cachucho, _Etelis oculatus_ (Linnæus). Havana. ]