REPORT ON FISHES FROM ALLAN HANCOCK 



EXPEDITIONS IN THE CALIFORNIA 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



(Plates 1-5) 



Alvin Seale 

 Superintendent of Steinhart Aquarium 



Most of this collection of fishes was obtained by the Allan Hancock 

 Pacific Expeditions of the Velero III off the coast of Mexico, Central 

 America, and the Galapagos Islands in 1931-32. Additional specimens 

 were sent to the author from the 1934 expedition. 



These collections were made by members of the scientific staff and 

 crew of the Velero III. Numbers of young fishes and larval crustaceans 

 were obtained by the use of the submerged electric light. Traps, nets, and 

 derris powders were also used with success. 



The following species are described as new in this paper : 



JJropterygius galapagensis, family Muraenidae . . . Page 7 



Aseraggodes herrei, family Soleidae . . . . 

 Callionymus garthi, family Callionymidae 

 Ophioblennius lanieri, family Blenniidae . 

 Stathmonotus culebrai, family Chaenopsidae . 



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Eptatretidae Hagfish 

 *Polistotrema stoutii (Lockington) 



One from Prisoners Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, California, April 24, 

 1934. Length 490 mm. Caught on a fishhook. 



Carchariidae Gray Sharks 

 Scoliodon longurio (Jordan and Gilbert) 



One from Tangola-Tangola, Mexico, December 15, 1931. Length 

 490 mm. This species has a sharp-pointed snout. Lips with a distinct 

 groove. Many flat serrated teeth placed obliquely in the jaws. 

 Galeorhinus zyopterus Jordan and Gilbert 



* For the most part the author has followed Jordan, Evermann and Clark's 

 Check List of Fishes and Fishlike Vertebrates of North and Middle America, Doc. 

 1055, Rept. Coram, Fish., 1928. 



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