works. We judged the species separately in 

 regard to what constitutes "adjacent waters" on 

 the basis of what is known about their ecology 

 and the status of other general information on 

 the species or their higher taxons. For example, 

 "adjacent waters" should be much more im- 

 mediate to a recorded distribution in the instance 

 of tidepool cottid species than in the apparently 

 wide-ranging and poorly known deepwater 

 species of Cyclopteridae. Species not recorded 

 for Alaska waters (in the literature or the 

 Auke Bay fish collection) are preceded by an 

 asterisk. Geographic names were chosen in 

 regard to their general occurrence in atlases 

 published in the United States and on regional 

 maps such as those published by the National 

 Geographic Society. For the most part, the 

 names indicate regions rather than precise 

 localities. 



Arrangement of teleostean families and spell- 

 ing of their names follow Greenwood et al. 

 (1966). Literature citations are restricted prin- 

 cipally to those of value for understanding the 

 systematics, taxonomy, or distribution of the 

 species. Citations often apply to synonyms of 

 species in the list. 



General faunal works have not always been 

 cited in the species entries, yet are important 

 sources of data on many of the species. These 

 general works include Bean's catalog (1881); 

 the four volumes of Jordan and Evermann 

 (1896-1900); Evermann and Goldsbo rough 

 (1907); Gilbert and Burke (1912); Jordan, 

 Evermann, and Clark (1930); Andriyashev 

 (1954); and Clemens and Wilby (1961). More 

 specialized but important also are Norman 

 (1934); Burke (1930); Wilimovsky (1954, 1964); 

 Phillips (1957) ; and McPhail and Lindsey (1970). 

 Unfortunately, a provisional key to the fishes 

 of Alaska by Wilimovsky (1958) is no longer 

 available from any source. 



A further purpose of the list is to inform 

 scientists of collections of Alaska species that 

 are available for study at the Auke Bay Labora- 

 tory. General regions for which the Auke Bay 

 Laboratory has obtained collections are in- 

 dicated at the end of species entries after 

 "ABBL:."' Localities are underlined when they 

 represent a range extension. Common names 

 include those recommended by the American 

 Fisheries Society (Bailey et al., 1970). 



LIST OF FISHES 



AAYXINIDAE — hagfishes 



Eptatretusdeaui (Evermann and Goldsborough). 



Black hagfish. 

 Southeastern Alaska-California (Grinols, 



1965; Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, 1930; 



Wilimovsky, 1954). 

 ABBL: southeastern Alaska. 



Eptatretus stouti (Lockington). Pacific hag- 

 fish, California hagfish, lamperina. 

 Southeastern Alaska-California (Clemens 

 and Wilby, 1961; Wilimovsky, 1954). 



PETROMYZONTIDAE — lampreys 



Eiit()sphe)iHs trideiitatiis (Gairdner). Pacific 



lamprey. 



Japan; Bering Sea to California (Berg, 1931; 



Carl, Clemens, and Lindsey, 1959; Gilbert, 



1895; Gilbert and Thompson, 1905; Hubbs, 



1967; Jordan et al., 1930; Jordan and 

 Gilbert, 1899; McPhail and Lindsey, 1970; 

 Taylor, 1967a; Wilimovsky, 1954, 1*964). 

 ABBL: southeastern Alaska. 



Lanipetra ayresi (Giinther). River lamprey. 

 British Columbia-California (Carl etal., 1959; 



Clemens and Wilby, 1961; Jordan et al., 



1930; McPhail and Lindsey, 1970; Vladykov 



and Follett, 1958). 

 ABBL: Stephens Passage, .southeastern 



Alaska. 



Lanipetra japonica (Martens). Aixtic lamprey. 



Sea of Japan; eastern and western Bering 



Sea; Arctic Alaska; Alaska Peninsula; 



Canada (Andriyashev, 1954; Berg, 1931; 



' Because the Auke Bay Fisheries Laboratory was 

 called the Auke Bay Biological Laboratory at the time 

 most of the collections were made, ABBL is used in 



the li.st. 



