The Fishes 



OF 



NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



BY DAVID STARR JORDAN AND BARTON WARREN EVERMANN. 



PART I 1 I 



PREFATORY NOTE. 



This volume is the third of a descriptive catalogue of the fishes and 

 fish-like vertebrates of North and Middle America. For the sake of 

 greater completeness the marine fishes of the Galapagos Islands and the 

 South American coast north of the equator have been included, as all of 

 these are sure, sooner or later, to be found within our limits. For the 

 same reason the few species known from Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands 

 are included as a part of the fauna of the Alaskan Sea. 



The pagination and the numbeiiug of the species, genera, and higher 

 groups are continuous throughout the three parts. 



Part I, liranehioslomatldw to Priacanihidw inclusive (pages 1 to 1240), 

 was published October 3, 1896; Part II, Luliauidw to Ccphalac<intliida' 

 inclusive (pages 1241 to. 2183), was published October 3, 1898; and Part 

 III, Callionijmidw to Oficocephalidd' appears on November 26, 1898. Parts I, 

 II, and III have each their own table of contents, while in Part IV (the 

 Atlas) is given a table of contents complete for the entire work and cor- 

 rected to include the Addenda. 



The present part includes also an artificial key to the families of true 

 fishes, an addendum containing species overlooked or described subse- 

 quently to the publication or casting of the part to which they belong, a 

 glossary of scientific terms, and a general index complete for the entire 

 work. 



A fourth volume, or Atlas of plates, containing illustrations of one or 

 more species of each of the more imjiortant genera, will loUow within 

 the year. 



The preparation of the manuscript for this work was begun by the 

 senior author in 1891. In 1893 the junior author became associated with 

 him, and since then both have given to it such of their time and energy 

 as could be s})ared from engrossing official duties to which systematic 

 ichthyology bears no relation. 



The insertion of the comma between generic and specific names and the 

 authorities for them, as practiced in this publication, is in accordance 

 with the views held by the authorities of the United States National 

 Museum, and does not express the views of the authors of this work. 



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