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580. Letharchus velifer Goode and Bean. 



Coa-st of Florida, in rather deep water; known only from the Snapper 



Banks off Pensacola and Tampa. 

 Letharchus velifer Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 



437, West Florida. 



Genus 221. PISODONOPHIS Kaup. 



Pisodonophis Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 17 (P. cancrivorus Kaup as 

 restricted by Bleeker; later written Pisoodonophis by Kaup and since 

 spelled Pisodontophis by purists). 



581. Pisodonophis daspilotus Gilbert. 



Panama. 



Pisodonophis daspilotus Gilbert, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North 

 and Mid. Amer., 1898, 2803, Panama. 



Genus 222. OMOCHELYS Fowler. 



Omochelys Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXX, 1918, 3 {Pisoo- 

 donophis cruenlifer Goode and Bean). 

 Styletor iovda,n, loc.cit., LXX, 1918 (1919), 343 {Pisoodonophis cruentifer 

 Goode and Bean) ; name preoccupied. 



582. Omochelys cruentifer (Goode and Bean). 



Two specimens at station 1035 of U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish 

 Hawk, 39° 57' N., 69° 28' W., in 120 fathoms; four others at nearly 

 same region in 245 fathoms. 



Pisoodonophis cruentifer Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 147, 

 fig. 166, Gulf Stream. 



Genus 223. CALIECHELYS Kaup. 



CaUechelys Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 28 {C. guichenoti Kaup). 



583. CaUechelys muraena Jordan and Evermaftn. 



Snapper Banks off Pensacola. 



CaUechelys mursena Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 

 1886, 466, Snapper Banks. 



Genus 224. BASCANICHTHYS Jordan and Davis. 



Bascanichthys .Jordan and Davis, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XVI, 1888, 

 621 {Ccecula hascanium Jordan). 



584. Bascanichthys bascanium (Jordan). 



Egmont Key, Florida. 



Ccecula hascanium Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXXVI, 1884, 

 48, Egmont Key, Fla. 



585. Bascanichthys scuticaris (Goode and Bean). 



West coast of Florida. 



Sphagebranchus scuticaris Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 



1879, 343, Cedar Key. 

 Sphagebranchus teres Goode and Bean, loc. cit., V, 1882, 436, west 



Florida. 



686. Bascanichthys cylindricus Meek and Hildebrand. 



Panama. 



Bascanichthys cylindricus Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Zool., XV, 1923, 152, PI. VIII, Chame Point, Panama. 



687. Bascanichthys panamensis Meek and Hildebrand. 



Panama. 



Bascanichthys panamensis Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., Zool., XV, 1923, PI. VII, 151, Chame Point, Panama. 



588. Bascanichthys bascanoides Osburn and Nichols. 

 Coast of Lower California. 

 Bascanichthys bascanoides Osburn and Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., XXXV, 1916, 147, fig. 4, San Cristobal, from the stomach of 



Mycteroperea venadorum. 



689. Bascanichthys peninsulas (Gilbert). 

 La Paz Bay, Gulf of California. 



CaUechelys peninsulx Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, 548, 

 La Paz Bay, Lower California. 



