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Signalosa atchafalayce Evermann & 



Kendal. 

 Habitat : Louisiana to Central America, 



Family ELOPID^E 



Tarpon Jordan & Evermann. 



Type : Me galops atlanticus Cuvier & 



Valenciennes. 

 Range : Marine. 



in lowland streams emptying into 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



ciennes) J. & E., 409. 



Me galops elongatus Girard; Megalops 



thrissoides Giinther. 

 Habitat: Long Island to Brazil, enter- 



I. Tarpon atlanticus (Cuvier & Valen- ing rivers. 



Family OSTEOGLOSSID^. 

 OsTEOGLOSSUM Vandelli. Ai. Osteoglossum bicirrhosum Vandelli, 



Ischnosoma Spix ; Scleropages Giinther. 



Type: Osteoglossum bicirrhosum Van- 

 delli. 



Range: Tropical America; Australia 

 and the East Indian Archipelago. 



Giinther, VII., 378. 



Osteoglossum vandellii Cuvier; O. aro- 

 wana Schomburgk; O. minus Valen- 

 ciennes. 



Habitat: Guianas to Para and Hual- 

 laga. 



Family ARAPAIMIDyE. 



Arapaima Miiller. Sudis pirarucu Spix; Vastres cuvieri, 



Sudis Cuvier; Vastres Cuvier & Valen- mapa, agassizii, arapaima Cuvier & 



ciennes. Valenciennes. 



Type : Sudis gigas Cuvier. Habitat : Guiana to Bahia and the Pe- 



Range that of the single species. ruvian Amazon. 

 Ai. Arapaima gigas (Cuvier), G. VII, 379. 



Order HAPLOMI, 

 Family PCECILIID^. 1 



Cynodontichthys Meek. 

 Type : Cynodontichthys tenuis Meek. 

 Range that of the single species. 

 1. Cynodontichthys tenuis Meek, 



Meek, 107. 

 Habitat : Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Fundulus Lacepede. 2 

 Type : Fundulus mudfish Lacepede. 

 Hydrargira Lacepede. 



Range : Central America, south to 

 Paraguay and Peru and north to Cape 



1 I am unable to locate Rhodeoides vaillanli Thomi- 

 not, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7), VIII, 150 (Magdalena 

 River, Bolivia). 



Cod and California. In fresh and 

 salt water. 

 1. Fundulus punctatus Giinther, 



Meek, 103. 

 F. guatemalensis Giinther; F. oaxacce 



Meek. 

 Habitat: Lakes Dueiias, Amatitlan ; 

 Rio Guacalate; western Ecuador; 

 Mexico. 

 2 Fundulus extensus Jordan & Gilbert, 



J. & E., 646. 

 Habitat: Lower California. 



* Fundulus vinctus Jordan & Gilbert Meek, 105. 



Habitat : Southern portion of Lower California. 



