CHECK LIST OF FISHES 87 



Genus 225. QUASSIREMUS Jordan and Davis. 



Quassireimis Jordan and Davis, Kept. U. S. Fish Com., XVI, 18S8, 622 

 {Ophichthus evionthas Jordan and Bellman). 



590. Quassiremus nothochir (Gilbert). 



San Josef Island, Gulf of California. 



Ophichthys nothochir Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1890, 58, 

 San Josef Island, Gulf of California. 



591, Quassiremus evionthas (Jordan and BoUman). 



Hood Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Ophichthus evionthas Jordan and BoUman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 

 1889, 154, Hood Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Genus 226. OPHICHTHUS Thunberg and Ahl. 



Ophichthus Ahl, De Mura?na et Ophichtho, 1789 {Mursena ophis L.). 



Cogrus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 62 (C. maculatus Rafinesque). 



Centrurophis Kaup, Apodal Fishes, 1856, 2 (C. spadiceus Kaup). 



Poecilocephalus Kaup, loc. cit., 5 (P. bonapartei Kaup). 



Microdontophis Kaup, loc. cit., 6 {M. altipinnis Kaup). 



Cwcilophis Kaup, loc. cit., 6 {C. compar Kaup). 



Herpetoichthys Kaup, loc. cit., 7 {H. ornatissirmis Kaup). 



Elapsopsis Kaup, loc. cit., 9 {E. versicolor Kaup). 



Murxnopsis Kaup, loc. cit., 11 {Mursenophis ocellatus LeSueur); the 



name wrongly credited to LeSueur. 

 Scylalophis Kaup, loc. cit., 13 (S. magnioculis Kaup). 

 Leptorhinophis Kaup, loc. cit., 14 (Ophisurus gomesi Castelnau). 

 Uranichthys Poey, Repertorio, II, 1867, 256 {Murxna havannensis 



Bloch and Schneider). 

 Oxyodontichthys Poey, Anales Soc. Espanola Hist. Nat.. 1880, 254 



{macrurus) . 

 Ophichthys Blocker, Giinther, and of recent authors generally. 



5 92. Ophichthus ophis (Linna?us). 



West Indies; apparently not common. 



? Serpens marinus maculosus Willoughby, Hist. Pise., 1686, Tab. G., 9, 



no locality. 

 ? Mursena ophis Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 244; after Willoughby; 



may be identical with Ophichlhius regius, a St. Helena species likewise 



spotted with black. 

 Jnnominado Parra, Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat., 1787, pi. 37, fig. 2, Habana. 

 Muruna havannensis Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 491; 



after Parra. 

 ? Ophisurus guttatus Cuvier, R^gne Anim., ed. 1, 1817, 232, Surinam; 



after Bloch, pl- 154. 

 ? Mursena maculosa Cuvier, loc. cit., Surinam; after Ophisurus ophis 



Lac^pdde, which is based on Bloch, pl. 154. 

 Herpetoichthys sulcatus Kaup, Apodal Irishes, 1856, 8, fig. 5, locality 



unknown. 

 Uranichthys brachycephalus Poey, Repertorio, II, 1867, 257, Cuba. 



593. Ophichthus retropinnis Eigenmann. 



Snai)per Banks off Pensacola, Fla. 



OpI.ichthys retropinnis Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 116, 

 Snapper Banks off Pensacola. 



594. Ophichthus gXittifer (Bean and Dre.sel). 



Suajjper Hanks off Pensacola, Fla. 



Ophichthys guttifer Bean and Dresel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., II, 1884 

 100, Snapper Banks. 



595. Ophichthus ocellatus (LeSueur). 



West Indies, south t(j Bra/il and north to Pensacola. 

 Muraenophis ocellatus LeSueur, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1825, 

 108, pl. 4, fig. 3, South America. 



