Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 112 1961 Number 3449 



REVISION OF THE MARINE SILVER 



HATCHETFISHES 



(FAMILY STERNOPTYCHIDAE) 



By Lkonard P. Schultz 



This revision of the marine silver hatchetfishes, family Sterno- 

 ptychidae, is based on specimens in the collections of the following 

 institutions: 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (AXSP) 



Binghman Oceanographic Collections, Yale University (BOC) 



British Museum (Natural History) (BM) 



Chicago Natural History Museum (C.MIM) 



Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) 



Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika (=Musee Royal du Congo Beige) 



(KM MA) 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ) 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) 

 Stanford Natural History Museum (SNHM) 

 Tulane University (TU) 



University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 

 University of Miami, Marine Laboratory (UMML) 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 

 U.S. National Museum (USNM) 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) 



To the authorities of these institutions the author is grateful for 

 loaning specimens and furnishing photographs and other data. 



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