Fishes of the IVestern North Atlantic 107 



Tetranarce occidentalis Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1895), 1896: 222 (listed, C. Cod 

 to Cuba); Smith, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., IJ, 1898: 89 (nos., season. Woods Hole region); Tracy, 

 36 Rep. R. I. Comm. inl. Fish., 1906: 47 (off Rhode Island); 40 Rep. R. I. Comm. inl. Fish., 1910: 

 62 (same as Tracy, 1906); Jordan, Evermann and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 27 

 (listed, C. Cod to Cuba); Wilson, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 158, 1932: 429 (copepod parasites. Woods 

 Hole and Provincetown, Mass.); Gowanloch, Bull. La. Dep. Conscrv., 23, 1933: 238 (electric organs, 

 size, listed Gulf of Mexico). 



Narcacion nobilianus Garman, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. ZooL, j6, 1913: 310, pi. 25, fig. 2, pi. 61, figs. 4, 5 

 (descr., ill. adult and embryo, skel.; American occidentalis considered ident. with European nobilianus); 

 Radcliffe, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 24^ 1916: 270 (early N. Carolina report probably was Narcine); Linton, 

 Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 64 (21), 1924: 24, 25, 64, 84 (season, cestode parasites, Woods Hole); Bigelow 

 and Welsh, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 40 (j), 1925: 68 (genl.. Gulf of Maine); Breder, Field Bk. Mar. Fish. 

 Atlant. Coast, 1929: 33 (genl.); Gowanloch, Bull. La. Conserv. Dep., 1932: 86 (electric shocks, size, 

 listed Gulf of Mexico); Bigelow and Schroeder, Canad. Atlant. Fauna, i2e, 1934: 35 (descr., ill. after 

 Garman, range); Vladykov and McKenzie, Proc. N. S. Inst. Sci., ig, 1935: 52 (St. Margaret Bay, 

 Nova Scotia); Bigelow and Schroeder, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 48, 1936: 325 (season, size, Georges Bank, 

 Provincetown, Mass.). 



Narcobatus nobilianus Fowler, Copeia, 31, 191 6: 41 (listed, Sandy Hook Bay, New York). 



Torpedo Ray, Wilson, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 58, 1932: 403 (copepod parasites, Woods Hole). 



Doubtful American References: 



Tetronarce occidentalis Poey, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 2, 1868: 458; also An. Soc. esp. Hist. Nat., 5, 1876: 

 402 (Havana specimen referred doubtfully to T. occidentalis'); Enumerat. Pise. Cubens., 1875-1876: 

 206 (listed, Cuba, by ref. to Poey, 1868). 



Torpedo occidentalis Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. nat. Mus., 5, 1883: 583 (electric fish reported by fisher- 

 men, Charleston, S. Carolina, but perhaps Narcine; see p. 121); True, List Vert. Anim. S. Carolina, in 

 Handb. S. Carolina, 1883: 261 (listed, S. Carolina). 



Not Raja torpedo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., j, 1758: 231 (E. Atlant.). 



Not Torpedo occidentalis Yarrow, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. (1877), 1877: 216 (listed, Fort Macon, N. Ca- 

 rolina).!"' 



Genus Narcine Henle 1834 



Narcine Henle, Ueber Narcine, 1834: 2; type species, Torpedo brasiliensis Olfers 1831. Brazil. 



Generic Synonyms: 



Raja (in part) Bloch and Schneider, Syst. IchthyoL, 1801: 359; includes Raja timlei Bloch and Schneider, 

 Tranquebar. 



Narcobatus (in part) Blainville, Bull. Soc. philom. Paris, 18 16: 121; Narcobatus maculatus Blainville included, 

 doubtless equals Raja maculata Shaw (Gen. ZooL, 5 [2J, 1804: 316). Indian seas, based on the 

 Temeree of Russell (Fish. Coromandel, j, 1803: i; Coromandel Coast). 



Torpedo van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, 2, 1824: 90; for Torpedo timlei van Hasselt, equals Raja timlei 

 Bloch and Schneider 1801. 



Syrraxis Jourdan, in Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital., J, Pesci, 1841 : 6th p. of descr. of Torpedo narke (no pagina- 

 tion); type species, Narcine indica Henle 1834. 



Cyclonarce Gill, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 7, 1862: 387; type species, Narcine timlei Henle 1834, equals Raja timlei 

 Bloch and Schneider 1 801. 



Gonionarce Gill, Ann. N. Y. Lye, 7, 1862: 387; type species, Narcine indica Henle 1834, equals Raja macu- 

 lata Shaw 1804. Indian seas. 



Narcina Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., 10, 1905: pi. i; evident misprint for Narcine. 



Narcinops Whitley, Fish. Aust., I, 1940: 164; type species, Narcine tasmaniensis Richardson 1840. Tasmania. i"* 



Not Torpedo Houttuyn, Nat. Hist. Dieren, Planten en Mineral., 6, 1764: 453. 



107. It has been pointed out already by Radcliffe (Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., J.^, 1916: 271) that the fish reported to Yarrow 

 by fishermen was "not a ray but the Electric Stargazer {Astroscopus y-graecum)." 



108. Narcinops was separated from Narcine as differing from the type species of the latter [Torpedo brasiliensis Olfers 



