ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 203 



Order PEDICULATIFORMES 



Suborder Antennarioidea 



Family OGCOCEPHALIDAE: Batfishes 



Genus OGCOCEPHALUS Fischer 



Ogcocephalus Fischer, Zoognosia, Tabl. Syn., ed. 3, vol. 1, pp. 70, 78, 1813. 

 (Genotype, Lophius vespertilio Linnaeus.) (Ref. copied.) 



OGCOCEPHALUS VESPERTILIO (Linnaeus) 

 MURCIELAGO DE MAR 



Lophius vespertilio Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 236, 1758 

 (Oceano Americano). — Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 413, figs. 

 229, 230, 1942 (coast of Venezuela). 



LITERATURE CONTAINING REFERENCES TO VENEZUELAN 



FISHES 

 Ahl, Ernst. 



1928. Ubersicht iiber die Fische der siidamerikanischen Cicliliden-Gattung 

 Pterophyllum. Zool. Anz., vol. 76, pp. 251-275, fig. 

 Beebe, William. 



1942. Atlantic and Pacific fishes of the Genus Dixonina. Zoologica, vol. 27, 



No. 8, pp. 43-48, 2 pis. 

 1943a. Pattern and color in the cichlid fish, Aequideus tetramerus. Zoologica, 



vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 13-16, 1 pi. 

 1943b. Physical factors in the ecology of Caripito, Venezuela. Zoologica, 

 vol. 28, No. 29, pp. 53-59, 2 figs., 2 pis. 

 BxGELOW, Henry B., and Schroeder, William C. 



1948. Fishes of the western North Atlantic: Sharks. Mem. Sears Founda- 

 tion Mar. Res. No. 1, pp. 59-576, figs. 6-106. New Haven. 



BOULENGER, GeoRGE A. 



1903. Description of a new fish of the genus Arges from Venezuela. Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 11, pp. 601-602. 

 Caporiacco, Lodovico di. 



1935. Spedizione nello Beccari nella Guiana Britannica. Monitore Zool. 

 Itahano, vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 55-70. 

 CoDAZZi, Agustin. 



1940. Resumen de la Geograffa de Venezuela, vol. 1, 303 pp.; vol. 2, 148 pp.; 

 vol. 3, 382 pp. Caracas. 

 CirviER, G., AND Valenciennes, A. 



1830-1849. Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, 499 pp., 1830; vol. 6, 

 559 pp., 1830; vol. 8, 507 pp., 1831; vol. 11, 506 pp., pis. 307-343, 

 1836; vol. 15, 540 pp., pis. 421-455, 1840; vol. 19, 544 pp., pis. 544- 

 590, 1846; vol. 22, 532 pp., pis. 634-650, 1849. 

 De Beaufort, L. F. 



1940. Freshwater fishes from the Leeward group, Venezuela and eastern 

 Colombia. Studies on the Fauna of Curasao, Aruba, Bonaire and 

 the Venezuelan Islands edited by Dr. P. W. Hummehnck. vol. 2, 

 pp. 109-114, 1 pi. 



