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Figure 3. — Map showing dist.ribution of the various species of Conger found in the Atlantic 



Ocean. 



On the American coast of the Pacific Ocean, two doubtful records 

 occur. The first such doubtful record, by Jordan and Gilbert (1882, 

 p. 378), is of a specimen (USNM 30930) 6)^ inches in length recorded 

 as Leptocephalus conger from Cape San Lucas, Lower California, 

 collected by L. Gelding. Jordan and Davis (1892, p. 665) reidentified 

 this specimen as Ophiosoma balericum, and Ogilby (1898, p. 288) made 

 it one of the types of the new species Congrellus gilberti. The second 

 doubtful record of a species of Conger occurring on the American coast 

 of the Pacific Ocean was made by Fowler (1912, p. 9). He described 

 a new species, Leptocephalus caudalis (ANSP 1055), from off Lower 

 California, collected by Dr. W. H. Jones with no date. He placed it 

 in a new subgenus, Microconger. I examined the holotype and found 

 it to be Conger cinereus. I cast doubt on the validity of the above 



