CHECK LIST OF FISHES 39 



Superorder TELEOSTEI. Bony fishes 



Order N. ISOSPONDYLI (Physostomi ; Malacopterigii). Soft-rayed 



fishes 



Suborder ELOPOIDEA 



Family 37. ELOPIDiE. Tenpounders 



Genus 87. ELOPS Linnaeus. 



Elops Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 1766, 518 {E. saurus). 



Mugilomorus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 398 (M. anna- 

 car olina). 



Trichonotus Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815, 88 (Mugilomorus anna- 

 carolina); substitute for Mugilomorus, considered objectionable. 



198. Elops saurus Linnaeus. Tenpounder; John Mariggle; Bonyfish; Bonefish; 



Big-eyed herring; Malajuelo real; Lisa francesa. 

 Tropical Atlantic; West Indies, north to Long Island; common. 

 Elops saurus Linneeus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 1760, 518, Carolinas. 

 Argentina Carolina Linnteus, loc. cit., 519, Carolinas. 

 Mugilomorus anna-carolina Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 398, 



South Carolina. 

 Elops inermis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 445, New 



York. 



199. Elops hawaiensis Regan. Awa. 



Hawaii and Pacific coast of Mexico north to Gulf of California; Hawaii. 

 Elops haivaiensis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 9th .ser.. Ill, 1909, 

 39, Hawaii. 



Family 38. MEGAL0PID.5:. Tarpons 



Genus 88. TARPON Jordan and Evermann. Grande fcaille. 



Tnr/iDii .lordan and EviTniaiui, Fishes North and Mid. Amcr., 1896, 409 

 (Mcgalops (illanticus Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



200. Tarpon atlanticus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Tarpon; Tarpum; 



Grande ecaille; Silrerfish; Sahalo; Savnnilla. 

 Long Island to Brazil; abundant off Florida, breeding in the West 



Indies. 

 Megalops atlanticus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIX, 



1846, 398, Guadeloupe; San Domingo; Martinique; Porto Rico. 

 Megalops elongatus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., X, 1858, 224, 



Long Island. 



Suborder AIBULOIDEI 



Family 39. ALBTJLID.a;. Ladyfishes 



Genus 89. AIBULA (Gronow) Bloch and Schneider. Ladyfishes. 

 Conorhynrhus Nozenian, Act. Select., Ill, 1757, 3S2; non-binomial. 

 Alhula Gronow, Zoophyl., 1763, 102; non-binomial. 

 Albula Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 432 {A. conorhynchus = 



Esox vulpes L.). 

 Bulyrinus Lacepdde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 45 (B. banana = Esox 



vulpes L.). 

 Glossodus Cuvier, in Agassiz, Spi.x, Pise. Brasil., 1829, 48 (A. forskdli= 



Esox vulpes L.). 



201. Albula vulpes (Linna?u.s). Ladyfish; Bonefish; Macabi; Sanducha; 



Banana fish. 



Tropical .';eas, ranging northward to San Diego; Long Island and .south- 

 ern Japan; perhaps more than one species included. 



Unbarana Marcgrave, Hist. Brazil, 1648, Brazil. 



Vulpes bahamcnsis Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolinas, etc., 1737, PI. II, 

 fig. 1, Bahamas; non-binomial. 



Esox vulpes Linnaius, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 313, Bahamas; based on 

 the bonefish, Vulpes bahamenais of Catesby. 



