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8. Lampetra cibaria (Girard). 



British Columbia (Giinther 1870, as Petromyzon ayresii, type). 



4. Lampetra aurea (Bean). 



Great Slave Lake (Richardson 1836, as Petromyzon fluvialis), adhering 

 to an Inconnii. Girard (1858) made this specimen the type of a new 

 species which he called P. borealis. The proper identification of the 

 specimen is uncertain ; it is probably the same as L. aurea. 



Family ACIPENSERID.E. 



o. Acipenser transmontanus Richardson. AVhite Sturgeon. 



Reported by Richardson (1836) from Pine Island Lake and Saskatche- 

 wan and Columbia rivers; Fraser River (Jordan it Gilbert 1881 ). 



(>. Acipenser sturio Linn.ieus. Common Sturgeon. 



Rivers St. John and Oromocto and (irand Lake, N. B. (Perley 1852, as 

 Acipenser o.ryriiichus); St. Lawrence River and tril)utaries (Fortin 1863 

 and 1864, as Acipenser o.ryrJiinchus); Red River of the North at Winni- 

 peg and in tlie lakes to the north (Eigenmann 1894). 



7. Acipenser rubicundus Le Sueur. Great Lakes Sturgeon. 



Lakes Cntario, Erie and Huron (Richardson 1836); Albany River Dis- 

 trict (Richardson 1836, as Acii^enser rupertianus, type); Moose Factory, 

 Hudson Bay (Walton Hayden, Coll., Bean 1881, as Acipenser macnlostis) ; 

 in great numbers in Saskatchewan, Red, Assiniboine and Winnipeg rivers, 

 " the most important food-fish in the Lake of the Woods" (Thompson 

 1898); St. Lawrence River below Ogdensburg (Evermann and Kendall 

 1902). 



8. Acipenser brevirostris Le Sueur. Short-nosed Sturgeon. 



River St. Lawrence and streams flowing into it (Fortin 1864, as "Short- 

 nosed Sturgeon (Le Sueur)"). 



FviriLY LEPISOSTEID.E. 



9. Lepisosteus osseus (Linnteus). Long-nosed Gar. 



Lake Huron at I'enetanguishene (Richardson 1836, as Lepisosteus 

 huronensis, type); Lake St. Peter near Sorel and River St. Lawrence be- 

 low Queljec (Fortin 1864, as Lepisosteus longirostris) ; and Bay of Quinte 

 (Halkett 1903). 



Family AMIID.E. 



10. Amia calva Linnams. Bowfin. 



Lake Huron (Richardson 1836, as J?nm. ocellicouda, type); near Sorel 

 in ^'t. Lawrence River (Fortin 1865, as Amia oceJUcanda) ; Lake St. Peter 

 (iMontpetit 1897, as Le Poisson-castor) ; Bay of Quinte (Halkett 1903); at 

 the head of Lake Deux-Montagnes (Desrochers 1904, as Amia ocellicau- 

 data). 



