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narrowly edged with sooty or blackish, their rayed portions otherwise amber gray on 

 preserved specimens; dental plates amber, the swellings (tritors) on the palatine and 

 mandibular plates white. 



Size. The claspers of males of 700—750 mm (to lower termination of caudal fin) 

 appear to be fully developed. The largest specimen seen (female in Study Material) 

 is about 695 mm long to the upper origin of the caudal (most of fin lost). 



Developmental Stages. The egg capsules have not been seen. 



Habits. We know only that the few specimens seen recently were taken in deep 

 water, one of them at 240 fathoms.^* 



Range. Known only from Matanzas Bay, Cuba. Seven specimens have been 

 reported, two of them taken in 1865, one in 1876, and four between 19 12 and 1934. 

 But a more thorough exploration of the fish fauna around Cuba in depths of 200—500 

 fathoms, with gear adapted to catching chimaerids, may prove that it is more plentiful 

 than the paucity of printed reports might suggest. 



Synonyms and References: 



Chimaera monstrosa Poey, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, j, 1866: 242 (diagn., Matanzas, Cuba); 2, 1868: 445; 

 also Synop. Pise. Cubens., 1868: 445 (diagn., Matanzas, Cuba); Enumerat. Pise. Cubens., An. Sec. esp. 

 Hist, nat., 4, 1876: 182, pi. 8 (descr., ills., Matanzas, Cuba). 



Chimaera cubana Howell-Rivero, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 41, 1936: 50, pi. 13 (descr., iU., cf. C. mon- 

 strosa, Matanzas, Cuba, from deep water). 



Not Chimaera monstrosa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., j, 1758: 236; eastern Atlantic. 



Genus Hydrolagus Gill 1862 



Hydrolagus Gill, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 1862: 331; type and only included species, Chimaera colliei 

 Lay and Bennett (Zool. Beechey's Voy., Fishes, 1839: 71, pi. 23, figs, i, 2). Off Monterey, California. 



Generic Synonyms: 



Callorhynchus Goode and Bean, Smithson. Contr. Knowl., jr, 1895: also, Mem. Harv. Mus. comp. Zool., 



22, 1896: 3,*" pi. 10, fig. 36; erroneous caption for ill. of Hydrolagus colliei, after Lay and Bennett 



(Zool. Beechey's Voy., Fishes, 1839: pi. 23, fig. i). 

 Chimaera (in part) Lay and Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voy., Fishes, 1839: 71; for C. colliei Lay and Bennett; 



also subsequent authors for other species. 

 Bathyopolex (subgenus of Chimaera') CoUett, Forh. VidenskSelsk. Krist., 9, 1904: 5; t}pe species, Chimaera 



(Bathyopolex) mirabilis CoUett. Faroe Channel and Faroe Bank, 720-1,200 m. 

 Bathyopolex (genus) Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carneg. Mus., 10, 1925: 118; for Chimaera barbouri Garman 



1908. Japan. 

 Psychichthys (subgenus oi Hydrolagus) Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., ^g, 1902: 419; type species, Hy- 

 drolagus 'u.-aitei Fowler. Southeastern Australia. 

 Psychichthys (genus) Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carneg. Mus., 10, 1925 : 1 17; for P. eidolon Jordan and Hubbs. 



Japan. 

 Phasmichthys Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carneg. Mus., 10, 1925: 119; type species, Chimaera mitsukurii Dean 



(J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 19 [3], 1904: 6, pi. i, figs, i, 2). Japan. 

 Not Chimaera Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., j, 1758: 236. 



Not Callorynchus Gronovius 1754, Cuvier 1817, and subsequent authors; see p. 560, footnote 121. 

 Not Callorynchus Gronovius 1772; probably equals Chimaera Linnaeus 1758; see p. 560, footnote 121. 

 Not Callorhinchus Lacepede 1798, see p. 560, footnote 121. 



59. Howell-Rivero, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 41, 1936: 50. 60. List of plates and figures. 



