List of the species enumerated in the foregoing paper, with a tabular statement of their geographical and bathymetrical range. A numerical summation of the columns of the above table gives the In addition to the above facts in regard to the distribution of the species, it should be added that two of the species, Lyreidus Bairdii and Nephropsis aculeata, belong to genera heretofore known only from the Pacific region, and each represented there by a single species only; while a third species, Lysiosquilla armata, has its nearest known ally in a species known only from the same region. Of the fifty species enumerated, fourteen are described as new and three others are indicated as probably new; forty-three are here first recorded as belonging to the New England fauna south of Cape Cod; twenty-eight are new to the whole fauna from Cape Hatteras to Northern Labrador; and twenty-one are new to America, including Greenland. Of the forty-three species new to the Southern New England fauna, fifteen are now known also from the New England fauna north of Cape Cod; and of the remaining twenty-eight, four were already known from the Straits of Florida, three from Greenland and Northern Europe, and two from the Mediterranean. NEW HAVEN, CONN., November 12, 1880. LIST OF THE FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH A TABLE SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. By DAVID S. JORDAN and CHARLES H. GILBERT. The writers have been engaged during most of the present year (1880) in making investigations of the fish and fisheries of the Pacific coast of the United States, in the interest of the United States Fish Commission and the United States Census Bureau. Extensive collections have been made at each of the principal fishing ports from New Westminster to San Diego. In the present paper a catalogue is given of the species now known to inhabit the Pacific Ocean between the mouth of Fraser's River on the north and San Diego on the south. The names of the species not seen by the writers are placed in italics. A vertical column is given for each of the principal localities, and a cross in any column opposite the name of a species indicates that we have obtained or examined, while in the field, specimens from the locality in question. In the last column, S. indicates a general southern distribution, most usually from Point Concepcion or Monterey to Magdalena Bay or Cape San Lucas; N. indicates a general northern distribution, usually from Monterey or Cape Mendocino to Sitka, or beyond; C. indicates the distinctively Californian fauna, the abundance being usually greatest about Monterey and San Francisco. This fauna is chiefly composed of the two viviparous families Scorpaenidae and Embiotocida. It will be noticed that the number of species obtained in Monterey Bay and about San Francisco is considerably greater than at any other points. This is partly due to the fact that these regions have more extensive fisheries than others. There is no doubt, however, that more species of fishes really occur from Monterey to Point Reyes than elsewhere on the coast. Monterey Bay is the common meeting ground of the semi-tropical and semi-arctic fish fauna. There is nowhere an abrupt change along the coast. The three capes, Flattery, Mendocino, and Point Concepcion, are to some extent points of division. 3. Tetrodon politus Ayres 4. Hippocampus ingens Grd. 5. Siphostoma punctipinne (Gill) J. & G. 8. Siphostoma californiense † (Storer) Gill. 9. Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill.. 10. Gasterostens (aculeatus) serratus Ayres... 12. Aphoristia atricauda J. & G 19. Pleuronectes stellatus Pallas 20. Lepidopsetta bilincata§ (Ayres) Gill. 21. Parophrys ischyrus J. & G 22. Parophrys isolepis (Lock.) J. & G 23. Parophrys vetufus Grd 24. Citharichthys sordidus (Grd.) Gthr. 25. Psettichthys melanostictus Grd *Syngnathus arundinaceus Grd. Syngnathus griseolineatus Ayres. : : : ++: +++++++: : +: : ++: ++ + +:: + + + : + + N. Nom. sp. nov. Pleuronichthys quadrituberculatus J. & G. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, iii, 50 non Pleuronec es quadrituberculatus Pallas. Pleuronectes perarcuatus Cope. Name. 26. Hippoglossoides exilis J. & G.. 32. Atheresthes stomias J. & G 33. Merlucius productus (Ayres) Gill 34. Pollachius chalcogrammus* (Pallas) J. & G. 35. Gadus morrhuat L. 36. Microgadus proximus (Grd.) Gill. 87. Brosmophycis marginatus (Ayres) Gill.. 38. Ophidium taylori Grd 39. Scytalina cerdale J. & G.... 40. Lycodopsis paucidens (Lock.) Gill 41. Lycodopsis pacificus Collett. 42. Anarrhichthys ocellatus Ayres.. 43. Lumpenus anguillaris (Pallas) Gill 44. Xiphister rupestris J. & G.. 45. Xiphister mucosus (Grd.) Jor. 46. Xiphister chirus J. & G 47. Cebedichthys violaceus Grd 48. Anoplarchus alectrolophus § (Pallas) J. & G. 49. Apodichthys flavidus Grd. 50. Apodichthys fucorum J. & G. 51. Muranoides ornatus (Grd.) Gill 52. Muranoides lætus (Cope) Gill 53. Cremnobates integripinnis Rosa Smith 54. Gibbonsia elegans Cooper 55. Heterostichus rostratus Grd. 56. Ncoclinus blanchardi Grd. 57. Neoclinus satiricus Grd 58. Hypleurochilus gentilis (Grd.) Gill 59. Porichthys porosissimus (Cuv. & Val.) Gthr.. 60. Gobiesox reticulatus Grd 61. Eumicrotremus orbis (Gthr.) Gill. 62. Neoliparis mucosus (Ayres) Steind 63. Liparis cyclopus Gthr. 64. Liparis pulchellus Ayres 65. Aspidophoroides inermis Gthr 66. Brachyopsis verrucosus Lock 67. Brachyopsis xyosternus J. & G 68. Podothecus acipenserinus (Pallas) Gill. 69. Podothecus vulsus J. & G. 70. Podothecus trispinosus (Lock.) J. & G 71. Bothragonus swani (Steind.) Gill 72. Prionotus stephanophrys Lock 73. Ascelichthys rhodorus J. & G 77. Artedius notospilotus Grd.. 79. Artedius pugettensis Steind. 80. Hemilepidotus spinosus Ayres 81. Hemilepidotus gibbsi Gill 82. Aspicottus bison Grd 83. Scorpænichthys marmoratus Grd. *Gadus periscopus Cope. +: +:++ + ++ + ++++ +: +++++++: + +:+ + + + + + :++++: + ++: ++: + : + + + Gadus auratus Cope; Gadus morrhua L. (fide Bean.)=G. macrocephalus Tiles. Name. 84. Leptocottus armatus Grd. 85. Liocottus hirundo Girard 86. Oligocottus globiceps Grd 87. Oligocottus maculosus Grd 88. Oligocottus analis Grd. 89. Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas) Gthr.. 90. Nautichthys oculofasciatus Grd 91. Scorpæna guttata Grd 92. Sebastichthys nigrocinctus (Ayres) Gill 93. Sebastichthys serriceps J. & G 94. Sebastichthys nebulosus (Ayres) Gill 95. Sebastichthys chrysomelas J. & G.. 96. Sebastichthys carnatus J. & G 97. Sebastichtys maliger J. & G. 98. Sebastichthys caurinus (Rich.) J. & G. var. vexillaris J. & G. 99. Sebastichthys rastrelliger J. & G. 100. Sebastichthys auriculatus (Grd.) Gill. 191. Sebastichthys rubrivinctus J. & G.. 102. Sebastichthys chlorostictus J. & G 103. Sebastichthys rhodochloris J. &. G 104. Sebastichthys rosaceus (Grd) Lock 105. Sebastichthys constellatus J. & G 106. Sebastichthys ruber (Ayres) Lock. 107. Sebastichthys miniatus J. & G 108. Sebastichthys pinniger (Gill) Lock 109. Sebastichthys atrovirens J. & G. 110. Sebastichthys elongatus (Ayres) Gill 111. Sebastichthys proriger J. & G. 112. Sebastichthys ovalis (Ayres) Lock 113. Sebastichthys entomelas J. & G 114. Sebastichthys mystinus J. & G 115. Sebastichthys melanops (Grd.) J. & G. 116. Sebastichthys flavidus (Ayres) Lock 117. Sebastodes paucispinis (Ayres) Gill 118. Hexagrammus aspert Steller 119. Hexagrammus superciliosus§ (Pallas) J. & G. 120. Hexagrammus decagrammus|| (Pallas) J. & G. 121. Hexagrammus nebulosus (Grd.) J. & G. 122. Ophiodon elongatus Grd 123. Ziniolepis latipinnis Grd 124. Oxylebius pictus Gill 125. Myriolepis zonifer Lock 126. Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas) Gill. 127. Gobius glaucofrænum (Gill) J. & G. 132. Trichodon stelleri Cuv. & Val 134. Bathymaster signatus Cope + 135. Icichthys lockingtoni J. & G. 136. Icosteus ænigmaticus Lock. 137. Trachypterus¶ ?altivelis Kner 138. Hypsypops rubicundus (Grd.) Gill 139. Chromis punetipinnis Cooper. 140. Psendojulis modestus (Grd.) Gthr 141. Platyglossus semicinctus (Ayres) Gthr. 142. Pimelometopon pulcher (Ayres) Gill ++ *Nom. sp. nov. Sebastodes melanops Ayres, non Sebastes melanops Grd. Sebastosomus simulans Gill. Chirus trigrammus Cope. Chirus pictus Grd. Chirus balias Cope. +:+ :: Chirus guttatus Grd. (2); Chirus constellatus Grd. (♂); Chirus maculoseriatus Lock. (?). |