ICHTHYOLOGY OF VENEZUELA — SCHULTZ 189 



Order CEPHALACANTHOIDEA 

 Family DACTYLOPTERIDAE: Flying Gurnards 



Genus DACTYLOPTERUS Lacepfede 



Dadylopterus LACEpfeoE, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 325, 1802. 

 (Genotype, Dadylopterus pipapeda LacepSde = TnjZa volitans Linnaeus.) 

 (Genus selected by first reviser instead of Cephalacanthus Lacep6de, ibid., 

 p. 323.) 



DACTYLOPTERUS VOUTANS (Linnaeus) 

 VOLADOR 



Trigla volitans Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 302, 1758. 

 Cephalacanthus volitans Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 411, fig. 228, 

 1942 (Venezuela). 



Order PLEURONECTOIDEA 



Suborder Psettodoidea 



Family BOTHIDAE: Soles 



A key to the species of the flatfish family Bothidae is given by 

 J. R. Norman in a systematic work, "Monograph of the Flatfishes 

 (Heterosomata)," vol. 1, pp. 60-61, 1934, pubhshed by the British 

 Museum. Not enough species have been recorded from Venezuela 

 to make it worth while to construct a key in this report. Several 

 other species of flatfishes will undoubtedly be taken when adequate 

 collecting is done along the Venezuelan coast. 



Genus CITHARICHTHYS Bleeker 



Citharichthys Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 13, p. 423, 1862. (Geno- 

 type, C. cayennensis Bleeker.) 



CITHAHICHTHYS SPILOPTEBUS Giinther 



Citharichthys spilopterus Gxjnther (part), Catalogue of the fishes in the British 

 Museum, vol. 4, p. 421, 1862 (New Orleans; Jamaica; San Domingo; Bahia). 



U. S. N. M. No. 121812, 1 specimen, 47 mm., Lago de Maracaibo at Maracaibo 

 Yacht Club, May 16, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121813, 6 specimens, 30 to 66 mm., Lago de Maracaibo at Mara- 

 caibo Yacht Club, March 5, 1942. 



U.S.N.M. No. 121814, 2 specimens, 22 and 40 mm., mouth of Cano de Sagua, 

 25 km. north of Sinamaica, March 12, 1942. 



1 specimen, 84 mm., Laguna del Rio Capatdrida at mouth, 5 km. north of 

 Capatdrida, F. F. Bond, March 21, 1938. 



1 specimen, 101 mm., saline lagoon. El Cable at Cardpano, F. F. Bond, 

 March 30, 1939. 



3 specimens, 45 to 77 mm., Laguna de Tacarigua, Estado de Miranda, F. F. 

 Bond, February 3, 1939. 



