6 BULLETIN 18 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



In all, 221 species of fishes were collected on this expedition from the 

 region explored and are represented in the National Museum; 128 of 

 these were not taken in the Phoenix and Samoan Islands by any of 

 the ten collectors mentioned above. They, however, obtained 140 spe- 

 cies, in the 64 families herein reported on, not collected by me. It 

 is concluded, therefore, that the piscifauna of the South Pacific Ocean 

 must be much more extensive than at present knoAvn, else it would 

 not have been possible to collect so many species not already represented 

 in the National Museum from that region. 



From Enderbury, Swains, Rose, McKeans, and Tan Islands no fishes 

 had previously been collected for scientific purposes. Jordan and 

 Kellogg obtained most of their specimens near Apia, Samoa, and not 

 many species had been taken at Pago Pago, Tutuila, or at Canton and 

 Hull Islands. Accordingly the Bushnell collecting yielded many new 

 distributional records for fishes ; about 900 such are published in this 

 report. 



References to the literature of the fishes of Oceania are not included 

 herein, since these have been amply covered by H. W. Fowler in his 

 "Fishes of Oceania" and the supplements. Additional sources of ref- 

 erences to the South Pacific fishes may be found in Allan R. McCul- 

 loch's 1929-30 "Checklist of the Fishes Recorded from Australia." 

 These as well as Jordan's "Genera of Fishes" and Bleeker's and Giin- 

 ther's important works have been used extensively and in numerous 

 cases the references cited have been copied. Whenever possible, how- 

 ever, the citations were verified from the original publications. Thus 

 it must be understood that this is a report upon a large collection and 

 not a revision or monograph of the fishes of the Phoenix and Samoan 

 Islands. 



All the collections listed as having been obtained in 1939 were pre- 

 served by me while associated with the U. S. S. Bwshnell and are 

 reported on for the first time in this bulletin. 



When the number of s]:;ecies in a family were suificiently represented 

 by specimens in the National Museum, keys have been prepared and 

 the characters thought to be of value in distinguishing the various 

 species are described in detail. It was intended to give by means of 

 the keys a description of the species reported on, thus making it un- 

 necessary to describe each species along with the distributional records. 



Order ASTEROSPONDYLI 

 Family GALEORHINIDAE 



Genus EULAMIA Gill 



Euhunia Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vol. 7, pp. 401, 409, 1861. (Type. 

 "Carcharias lamia" lli\^uesqttG=CarcJiarhinus commersonianus Blainville. ) 



