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Suborder T^NIOSOMI ' 

 Family 131. TRACHIPTERIDiE. King of the herrings 



Genus 555. TRACHIPTERUS Gouan. 



Trachiptcnis Gouaii, Ili.st. Nat. Poiss., 1770, 103 (7'. (jounni Gouan = 



Cephola tracbyptera Gmclin). 

 Trachijptcrufi of authors; corrected .spellins. 

 Bogmanis Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 518 {B. islandicus Schneider = 



Trachiplerus arclicus). 

 Vogmarus Reid, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist-, III, 1849, 456 (B. islandicus 



Schneider) ; substitute name as the Danish name is VaagmjBr. 



1685. Trachipterus arcticus (Briinnich). Dealfish; Vaagmar. 



Arctic Sea, Iceland to Norway. 



Gytnnogaster arcticus Briinnich, Nva. Handl., Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 



Skrifter, III, 1788, 408, Tab. B,' figs. 1-3. 

 Bogmarus islandicus Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 518, Tab. 101. 

 Trachypterus bogmarus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X, 



1827?, 346. 

 Trachypterus vogmarus Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter, 



VII, 1838, 71, with fig. 



1686. Trachipterus rex-salmonorum Jordan and Gilbert. King of the 



salmon. 



Off coast of California. 



Trachypterus rex-salmonorum Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci., 2d ser., IV, 1894, 144, pi. 9, open sea, outside Bay of San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Trachypterus seleniris Snyder, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LX, 1908, 

 319, Monterey; adult form. 



1687. Trachipterus trachyurus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Trachypterus trachyurus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 420, Cuba. 



Suborder ATELAXIA 



Family 132. STYLEPHORID^ 



Genus 556. STYLEPHORUS Shaw. 



Stylrphorus Shaw, Trans, i^inn. See. Lond., I, 1791, 90 (S. chordatus 

 Shaw) . 



1688. Stylephorus chordatus Shaw. 



Open sea, Atlantic; very rare. 



Stylephorus chordatus Shaw, Trans., Linn. Soc. Lond., I, 1791, 90, pi. 

 6, Atlantic, between Cuba and Martiniciuc. 



Order JJ. SELENICHTHYES 



Family 133. LAMPRID^. Opah; Moonfish 



Genus 557. LAMPRIS Retzius. 



Lampris Retzius, Vetensk. Akad. Nya Handl., XX, 1799, 91 {Zeus 



guttatus Briinnich = Ztwt.s regius Bonnaterre). 

 Chrysotosus Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1803 {Zeus luna Gmelin). 

 Echemythes Gistel, Thierreich, X, 1848 {Zeus luna Gmelin). 



1689. Lampris regius (Bonnaterre). Mariposa; Opah; Moonfish; San Pedro 



fish; Cruvo; Jerusalem haddock; Glancefish; Gudlax; Poisson lune. 

 Open seas, Atlantic and Pacific; Madeira; Newfoundland; Maine; 



Cuba; Monterey; Hawaii; Japan; recently taken off San Pedro. 

 Zeus regius ^s Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. Ichth., 1788, 72, pi. 39, 



Torbay, England. 

 Zeus guttatus Briinnich, Danske Skrifter, III, 1788, 403, Elsinore, 



Denmark. 

 Zeus luna Gmelin, Syst. Nat., ed. XIII, 1789, 1225, Normandy. 



•• The name regius certainly has priority over luna and probably over guttatus al-so. 



