CHANGES IN NAMES AND CLASSIFICATION FOR BIGELOW AND SCHROEDER 

 Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 1953 



Petromyzonidae = Petromyzontidae 



Carchariidae = Odontaspidae; Carcharias taurus = Odontaspis taurus (Rafinesque) 



Isuridae = Lamnidae 



Cetorhinidae is frequently considered as a subfamily of Lamnidae 



Triakidae is frequently included in Carcharhinidae 



Scoliodon terrae-novae =Biizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson) 



Carcharhinus milberti = C. plumbeus (Nardo) 



Dalatiidae is now included as a subfamily of Squalidae 



Echinorhinidae usually considered as a subfamily of Squalidae 



big skate = winter skate 



brier skate = clearnose skate 



Rhinopteridae = Myliobatidae 



Acipenser sturio = Acripenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus Mitchill 



Tarpon atlantiaus = Megalops attanticus Valenciennes, family Elopidae 



Etrumeus sadina = Etrumeus teres (DeKay), family Clupeidae 



Clupea harengus = Clupea harengus harengus, Atlantic herring 



Pomolobus mediocris = Alosa mediocrxs (Mitchill) ^ 



Pomolobus pseudoharengus = Alosa pseudoharengus (Wilson) 



Pomolobus aestivalis = Alosa aestivalis (Mitchill) 



Anguilla (p. 151) belongs to the Anguillidae; Conger (p. 154) to the Congridae; 



Simenchelys (p. 157) to the Simenchelyidae; Synaphobranchus (p. 158) to the 



Synaphobranchidae; Omochelys (p. 159) to the Opichthidae; and Nemichthys 



(p. 159) to the Nemichthyidae 



Conger oceanica = Conger oceanicus (Mitchill) 



Omocneuys cruenzifer — Oph.ichzh.us cruentifer (Goode hjiu Bean) 



Fundulus and Cyprinodon belong to the Cyprinodontidae 



billfishes or silver gars = needlefishes 



Tylosurus marinus = Strongylura marina (Walbaum) 



needlefishes = sauries 



Cypselurus heterurus = C. melanurus (Valenciennes) 



Merlucciidae is sometimes included in Gadidae but Antimora and Physiculus 



here included in Gadidae belong to the Moridae 



Gadus callarias = Gadus morhua (Linnaeus) 



Urophycis regius = U . regia (Walbaum) 



Orophycis chesteri = Phycis chesteri Goode and Bean 



Antimora and Physiculus belong to the Moridae 



Macrourus bairdii = Nezumia bairdii (Goode and Bean) 



Lampris regius = Lampris guttatus (BrUnnich) 



Hippoglossidae is now included in the Pleuronectidae, Paralichthyidae in the 



Bothidae, and Achiridae (Trinectes) in the Soleidae. Three genera Paralichthys, 



Scophthalmus and Citharichthys , are lefteye flounders, Bothidae; the other 



genera are righteye flounders, Pleuronectidae 



sand flounder, Lophopsetta maculata = window pane, Scophthalmus aquosus (Mitchill) 



Achirus fasciatus = Trinectes maculatus (Bloch and Schneider), Soleidae 



Zenopsis ocellata = Z. conchifera (Lowe) 



Xenolepidichthys americanus = Daramattus americanus (Nichols and Firth) 



Macrorhamphosidae is included in Centriscidae by some authors 



Hippocampi dae, seahorses are now included in the Syngnathidae 



Hippocampus hudsonius = H. erectus Perry, the lined seahorse 



Pneumatophorus colias = Scomber japonicus Houttuyn 



striped bonito, Euthynnus pelamis = skipjack, Katsuuonus pelamis (Linnaeus) 



