1910.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 599 



LITTLE KNOWN NEW JERSEY FISHES. 

 BY HENRY W. FOWLER. 



The following notes on rare or neglected fishes from New Jersey, 

 are based on material now in the Academy, unless otherwise stated. 

 I have also mentioned some others to show interesting associations. 

 Alopias vulpes (Gmelin). 



One was reported taken off Atlantic City on May 14, said to have 

 been 15 feet long. Not in the Academy. 



Eulamia obscura (Le Sueur). 



I examined the jaws of an example, now in the New Jersey State 

 Museum and evidently this species, taken at Perth Amboy in 1850, 

 submitted to me by Mr. S. R. Morse. 



Squatina squatina (Linnaeus). 



The first record of this fish is in 1847, from Delaware Bay, 1 and an 

 old dried skin in the collection of the Academy, without data, is 

 very likely the original specimen. It has also been recorded from 

 Atlantic City. 2 



Dasyatis say (Le Sueur). 



One taken at Barnegat in August by Mr. R. B. Farley proves to 

 be this species. 



Acipenser sturio Linnaeus. 



A large example was taken, in a net, in the Delaware River at 

 Beverly late in August. Not in the Academy. 



Tarpon atlanticus (Valenciennes). 



The first record for this species is by Baird, who says, in 1874, it 

 has "been noted as occurring more or less frequently along the coast 

 of New Jersey." 3 An example, said to have weighed 120 poinds, was 

 reported from Seabright later, 4 and the same record says "several 

 reported between Cape May and Fire Island in the past ten years." 



1 Squatina dumerili, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1847, p. 246. 



2 Squatina angelus Gaskill, Forest and Stream, XXXVI, August 13, 1891, 



68. 



3 Megalops thrissoides Baird, Forest and Stream, III, July 30, 1874, p. 338. 



4 Forest and Stream, XXV, August 20, 1885, p. 70. 



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