STARGAZER FISHES BERRY AND ANDERSON 569 



synonomy of the Eastern Atlantic Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus. 

 G. Palmer of the British Museum (Natural History) in a communica- 

 tion of August 31, 1959, wrote regarding the adult specimen: "On 

 checking the locality for the adult specimen, I find that the old 

 register gives this as Mauritius and not the West Indies. It is part 

 of a collection purchased by the Museum in 1841 from Stevens. 

 The material was collected by Janvier, who certainly did work in the 

 Mauritius area. I think the listing of the locality by Giinther as 

 the "West Indies" must be regarded as a lapsus calami on his part!" 

 Agassiz's specimen may have been Uranoscopus scaber or some other 

 species of Uranoscopus, but we record it as a distinct species because 

 no other specimen of Uranoscopus has been reported from the Ameri- 

 can continents, and there is not sufficient evidence to warrant placing 

 it in the synonymy of any other species. 



Diagnosis: Dorsal spines four. Dorsal soft rays 14. Anal soft 

 rays 13 or 14. Pectoral rays 16. Lower jaw without a pair of 

 prominent converging bony ridges. Top of head covered with 

 exposed cranial bones. Cleithral spine long, sharp pointed, and pro- 

 truding through the skin. Body scales present. 



Color: Spinous dorsal fin black. 



Range: Brazil (probably in the western South Atlantic), only the 

 type specimen recorded. 



Genus Astroscopus Brevoort 



Astroscopus Brevoort in Gill, 1860, p. 20. Type species: Uranoscopus anolopos 

 Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831, by monotypy. 



Astroscopus y-graecum (Cuvier) 

 Plates 1,a,c,e,g; 2b 



Uranoscopus Y graecum Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829, p. 308 (length 

 quinze pouces; type locality unknown; type specimen deposition unknown). 



Uranoscopus anoplos Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831, p. 493 

 (length deux pouces; type locality South Carolina from Mt. LeConte; type 

 specimen in Paris Museum ?). — DeKay, 1842, p. 37, pi. 22, fig. 65 (described; 

 a 2.2-inch specimen from South Carolina collected by Le Conte; excluding 

 reference to a sight record of a 6-inch specimen from New York Harbor). — 

 Storer, 1846, p. 46 (reference after Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1831). 



Agnus anoplus, Giinther, 1860, p. 229 (reference after Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 1831, and DeKay, 1842). 



Uranoscopus y-graecum, Giinther, 1860, p. 229 (described; an adult specimen 

 from the "West Indies")- — Gill, 1861b, p. 21 (referred to the genus 

 Astroscopus) . 



Upselonphorus y-graecum, Gill, 1861a, p. 113 (reference). 



Astroscopus anoplus, Gill, 1861a, p. 114 (reference, in part; excluding part of 

 synonymy); 1861b, p. 43 (reference after Storer 1846). — Jordan and Gilbert, 

 1882, p. 629 (in part; excluding reference to Abbott, 1861, from synonymy). — 

 Jordan, 1884, p. 139 (description; Key West, Fla.). 



