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Family 138. ACHIRID^. Broad soles 

 SubfamUy GYMNACHIEIN^ 



Genus 602. GYMNACHIRUS Kaup. 



Gymnachirus Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, I, 1858, 101 (Gymnachirus 



nudus Kaup). 



1788. Gymnachirus nudus Kaup. 



Coast of Brazil; once taken at Tisbury Great Pond, Martha's Vine- 

 yard Island, Mass. (Vinal N. Ed\A-ards). 

 Gymnachirus 7iudus Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, I, 1858, 101, Brazil 



1789. Gymnachirus fasciatus Giinther. 



West Indies; very rare, north to Long Key, Fla. (W. C. Kendall). 

 Gijmnachirus fasciatus Gunther, Cat., IV, 1862, 488, locality unknown. 



Subfamily ACHARIN.ffi 



Genus 603. ACHIRUS Lacepede. 



Achirus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 658 (Pleuronectes achirus 



Linnaeus). 

 Trinectes Rafinesque, Atlantic Jour, and Friend of Knowledge, I, 1832 



{T. scabra Rafinesque = Pleuronectes mollis Mitchill). 

 Grammichthys Kaup, Arch. Naturgesch., 1858, 94 {Achirus lineatus 



Linnaeus). 

 Baiostoma Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 413 (JS. brachialia 



Bean). 



Subgenus ACHIRUS Lacepede. 



1790. Achirus achirus (Linnaeus). 



Atlantic coasts of tropical America. 



Pleuronectes oculis dextris cor pore glabra, pinnis pectoralibus nullus 



Gronow, Museum, I, No. 42, Surinam. 

 Pleuronectes achirus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 268, Surinam; 



based on Gronow. 

 Solea gronouii Giinther, Cat., IV, 1862, 472, Surinam. 



1791. Achirus inscriptus Gosse. 



West Indies, north to Key West. 



Achirus inscriptus Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica, 1851, 52, pi. 1, fig. 4, 



Jamaica. 

 MoHochir reliculalus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 317, Cuba. 



Subgenus GRAMMICHTHYS Kaup. 



1792. Achirus klunzingeri (Stcindachner). 



Pacific coast of tropical America, Panama to Guayaquil. 

 Solea klunzingeri Steindachner, Zur Fische des Cauca und der FlUsse 

 bei Guayaquil, 1879, 44, Guayaquil. 



Subgenus TRINECTES Rafinesque. 



1793. Achirus fasciatus Lacepede. American sole; Hogchoker. 



Atlantic coast of United States, from Cape Cod to Texas; often 



ascending streams. 

 Achirus fasciatus Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 659, Charleston, 



0. C 



Pleuronectes mollis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 388, 



pi. 2, fig. 4, New York. 

 Pleuronectes apoda Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag. and Crit. Rev., Feb., 



1818, 244, Straits of Bahama. 

 Trinectes scabra Rafinesque, Atlantic Jour, and Friend of Knowledge, 



1, 1832, Pennsylvania, in fresh water. 



Solea browni Gunther, Cat., IV, 1862, 477, New Orleans; Texas. 



1794. Achirus scutum (Giinther). 



Pacific coast of Central America. 



Solea scutum Giinther, Cat., IV, 1862, 474, GuK of Fonseca, Panama. 



