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Subclass DIPNOI. 

 Order DIPNEUMONA. 

 Family LEPIDOSIRENIDyE. 

 Lepidosiren Fitzinger. 



Amphibichthys Hogg. 



Type : Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger. 

 Range that of the single species. 



Ai. Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 



Giinther, III, 322. 

 Lepidosiren assimilis Castelnau ; Lepi- 

 dosiren articulata Ehlers. 

 Habitat : Amazons to Paraguay. 



Subclass TELEOSTOMI 



Order RHOMBOGANOIDEA. 



Family LEPISOSTEID/E. 

 Lepisosteus Lacepede. 1 



Cylindrosteus, Atractosteus, Sarchirus 

 Rafinesque ; Lepidosteus Agassiz. 

 Type : Lepisosteus gavialis Lacepede. 

 Range : Panama and northward to 



Cuba and the Atlantic slope of 2 - 

 North America. 

 Lepisosteus tristccehus (Bloch & Schnei- 

 der) , Meek, 6. 



Lepidosteus bcrlandi Girard; Atractos- 

 teus lucius Dumeril; Lepidosteus 

 viridis Giinther. 



Habitat : Cuba and Mexico from Tam- 

 pico north. 

 Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill), . . . .Meek, 7. 



Habitat : Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Rio 

 Usumacinta to Panama; Huamuchal. 



Superorder OSTARIOPHYSI. 



Order NEMATOGNATHI. 



Family ASPREDINIDyE. 



Subfamily BUNOCEPHALIN.E. 



Bunocephalichthys Bleeker. 



Type : Bunocephalus hypsiurus Kner. 

 Range that of the single species. 

 A 1. Bunocephalichthys hypsiurus (Kner), 



E. & E., 14. 

 Habitat : Rio Branco. 



Agmus Eigenmann MS. 

 Type : Bunocephalus scabriceps E. & E. 



1 Lepisosteus osseus, a north temperate species, reaches 

 Tampico just within the tropics. 



Range : Amazons to Guiana. 

 A 1. Agmus scabriceps (Eigenmann & Eig- 

 enmann). 



Habitat: Jutahy. 

 2. Agmus lyriformis Eigenmann MS. 



Habitat: British Guiana. 



Bunocephalus Kner. 

 Type : Platystacus verrucosus Bloch. 

 Range : Amazons ; Paraguay ; Rio 

 Grande do Sul. 



