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Genus 57. DACTYLOBATUS Bean and Weed. 



Dadi/lobatus Bean and Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XX VI, 1909, 459 

 {D. armaius Bean and Weed). 



132. Dactylobatus armatiis Bean and Weed. 



Deep water off South Carolina. 



Dactylobatus armatus Bean and Weed. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXVI, 

 1911, 459, off Charleston in 270 fathoms. 



Suborder NARCACIONTES 



Family 26. TORPEDINID.ffl. Electric rays 



Genus 58. TETRANARCE i* Gill. Great torpedo. 



Tetranarce Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1862, 387 (Torpedo 



occidentalis Storer) ; misprinted Teironarce. 

 Gymnotorpedo Fritsch, Arch. Anal. Phys., 1886, 365 {T or pedo occidentalis 

 Storer). 



133. Tetranarce occidentalis (Storer). Electricfish; Cramp fish; Torpedo; 



Numbfish. 



Atlantic coast of United States, Cape Cod to Cuba; not very common. 



Torpedo occidentalis Storer, Amer. Jour. Sci. Arts, XLV, 1843, 165, 

 pi. 3, Massachusetts. Garman regards this species as inseparal)le 

 from Torpedo nobiliana Bonaparte of the Mediterranean. 



134. Tetranarce calif ornica (.\yrcs). California torpedo; Crampfish. 



Coast of California; not recorded from soutli of Monterey; recently 



reported from Cape Flattery, Wash. 

 Torpedo californica Ayrcs, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 1855, 74, 



San Francisco. 



Genus 59. NARCINE Henle. 



Narcine Henle, Ueber Narcinc, 1834, 31 (Torpedo brasiliensis von 



Olf ers) . 

 Syrraxis Jourdain, in Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, fasc. 160, 1841 (Narcine 



indica Henle). 

 Cyclonarce Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., VII, 1861, 387 (Raia 



timlei Schneider). 

 Gonionarce Gill, loc. cit., 387 (Narcine indica Henle). 



135. Narcine brasiliensis (Olfcrs). Torpedofish; Small electric ray; Trembler. 



West Indies and Brazil, occasionally northward to Key West and the 



coast of North Carolina. 

 Torpedo brasiliensis von Offers, Torpedo, 1831, 19, tab. 2, fig. 4, Brazil. 

 Torpedo bancrofli GriflTith, Anim. King., X, 1834, 649, PI. XXXIV, 



Jamaica. 

 Narcine nigra Dumdril, Revue Znol., 272, 1852, Brazil. 

 Torpedo pictus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, 13, 1854, Antilles. 

 Narcine brasiliensis corallina Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., VIII, 



1881, 234, Florida. 

 Narcine umbrosa Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 1884, 105, Key 



West. 



136. Narcine entemedor Jordan and Starks. Entemedor. 



Pacific coast of tropical America; Mazatlan, La Paz, Panama. 

 Narcine entemedor Jordan and Starks, Fishes of Sinaloa, Proc. Calif. 

 .\cad. Sci., V, 1805, 3S7, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Genus 60. DISCOPYGE Heckel. 



Discopyge Heckel, in Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, 1846, 32 (D. tschudii 

 Tschudi). 



137. Discopyge ommata Jordan and Gilbert. 



Panama; rare 



Discopyge ommata Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 

 1889, 151, Panama. 



" In the Old World genus Torpedo Forskftl, as then understood, the spiracles are provided with a frieze 

 of filaments, at least in joints. In Tetranarce these are absent. The following is the synonymy of Torpedo: 



Torpedo ForskiM, Fauna Arabica, 1775, 16. in part (Raia torpedo !>., confused with Malapterurus elec- 

 Iricxu, the elertrif catfish of the Nile). 



Narcarion Klein, Neuer .'^chauplatz,, IV, 1777, 726, nonbinomlal {Raja torpedo L.}. 



Fimtiriotorpcdo Fritsch, loc. cit., 365 {Torpedo marmorata liiaao = Raja torpedo L.). 



