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SPECIES LIST 



1. Bryx veleronis Herald 



Known from Clarion Island, Mexico; Bat Island, Costa Rica; Gor- 

 gona Island, Colombia; Charles, Narborough, James, and Albemarle 

 islands, Galapagos, Ecuador; 30 specimens examined. 



2. Doryrhamphus melanopleura (Bleeker) 



Syngnathus melanopleura Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 15, 



1858, p. 464. 

 *Doryrhamphus calif orniensis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vol. 14, 



1862, p. 284. 

 San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, south to Galapagos Islands, and 

 westward to Japan ; 7 specimens examined. 



3. Leptonotus blainvillianus (Eydoux and Gervais) 



Syngnathus blainvillianus Eydoux and Gervais, Mag. de Zoologie, 7 



annee CI. 4, p. 3, pi. 17. 

 Hemithylacus petersi Dumeril, Hist. Nat. des Poiss., vol. 2, 1870, p. 600. 

 Acmonotus chilensis Philippi, Ann. Univ. Santiago (Chile), vol. 93, 

 1896, p. 383. 

 West Coast of South America from Peru south to Orange Bay, South 

 Patagonia; one record from Gulfo Nuevo, Argentina; 1 specimen exam- 

 ined. 



4. Oostethus brachyurus (Bleeker) 



Syngnathus brachyurus Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Genootsch., vol. 25, 1853, 



p. 16. 

 Dorichthys brachyurus Regan, Biol. Centr. Amer., Pisces, pt. 2, 1907, 



p. 55. 

 An Indo-Pacific species, but recorded by Regan from Tehuantepec; 

 record doubtful. 



5. Pseudophallus starksi (Jordan and Culver) 



Siphostoma starksi Jordan and Culver, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 3d sen, 

 vol.5, 1895, p. 416, pi. 30. 

 San Jose del Cabo, Lower California, south to Santa Rosa, Ecuador; 

 10 specimens examined. 



