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Note on some recent Additions to the ICHTHYOLUGICAL Fauna of 



Massachusetts. 



BY THEODORE GILL. 



During a short sojourn in the summer of the present year at Wood's Hole< 

 Massachusetts, Prof. S. F. Baird paid especial attention to the Fishes of that 

 locality, and obtained specimens of forty-seven distinct species. Among these, 

 there are three that have not before been noticed as inhabitants of the shores 

 of Massachusetts. The three species are all well known and common along the 

 Southern coast, and one of them was extremely abundant at Wood's Hole. 

 Two belong to the family of Carangoids, and the genus Trachynotus and one to 

 the genus Cyprinodon, of the Cyprinodont family. The Trachynoti were T. caro- 

 linus, of which many young specimens were secured, and T. ovatus, of which 

 only two were obtained. The Cyprinodon was the C. vuriegalus Lac, and was 

 found in very great numbers. 



Since the publication of the several parts of Dr. Storer's illustrated "His- 

 tory of the Fishes of Massachusetts," ten marine species have been added. The 

 following is a list : 



1. Skbastes fasciatus Storer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 31. 



Provincetown, Capt. Atwood. 



A doubtful species. 

 2 Centbiscds scolopax Storer, op cit, v. 178. 



Dr. Storer has noticed " a specimen of the Trumpet Fish (Centriseus scolopax)^ 

 caught at Provincetown, the first known to Lave been taken on this coast." 

 The specific identity of the specimen with C. scolopax requires confirmation. 



3. Zenopsis ocellatus Gill, = Zeus ocellatds Storer, op cit. vi. 888. 

 " Found at Provincetown, Mass." 



4. Priacanthds altus Gill. 



I am indebted for my knowledge of this species as a visitor to the Massa- 

 chusetts coast, to Mr. F. W. Putnam, of Cambridge. He has kindly informed 

 me that, since the species was described, two specimens have been examined by 

 himself, one from Providence, Rhode Island, mentioned in the Annual Report 

 of the Trustees and Directors of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, (Cam- 

 bridge) for 1862, and a second taken at Marblehead, Mass., and preserved in 

 the collection of the Essex Institute. 



5. Ammodytes dcbius Reinhardt. 



One specimen has been recorded by Dr. Giinther (Cat. Fishes, iv. p. 387) as 

 having been sent from Boston, by W. Winstone, Esq. 



6. Ciliata argentataGiII, = Motella argentata Reinhardt. 



A single specimen of this species has been obtained by Dr. Slack, at 

 Nahant. It had been previously known only as an inhabitant of Greenland, or 

 the open sea of high latitudes. Its occurrence at Nahant has been noticed in 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for 1863, 

 (p. 241). 



7. Trachynotcts carolinus, Gill ex Linn. 



8. Trachynotus ovatus, Gthr. ex Linn. 



9. Cyprinodon variegatus, Lac. 



10. Cryptacanthodes inornatus Gill. 



This species, first referred to under present name by Dr. Holmes, in his Report 

 on the Fishes of Maine, has been found in the waters of Massachusetts, accord- 

 ing to Mr. F. W. Putnam, who has kindly informed me that male and female 

 specimens are preserved in the Zoological Museum of Cambridge. The species 

 is extremely closely related to C. maculatus St. ( = Fierasfer f borealis Dekay 



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