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1895. Syrictes ezilis (Osburn and Nichols). 



Gulf of California. 



Siphostoma exile Osborn and Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXV, 1916, 153, fig. 7, west San Benito Island, Port San Bartolome. 



Genus 637. HIPPICHTHYS Bleeker. 



Hippichthys Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch., XXII, 1849, 15 (H. 



heptagonus Bleeker); not Hippocampus heptagonus Rafinesque. 

 Corythoichthys Kaup, Archiv Naturgesch., 1853, 231 (C alhirostris 



Heckel MS. Kaup). 



1896. Hippichthys albirostris (Heckel). 



West Indies, north to Pensacola and Key West; south to Bahia, about 



coral reefs. 

 Corythoichthys albirostris Heckel in Kaup, Archiv Naturgesch., 1853, 



231, Mexico; Bahia; type examined. 

 Siphostoma zatropis Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 



1882, 264, Snapper Banks, Pensacola. 



1897. Hippichthys cayorum (Evermann and Kendall). 



Key West, Fla.; Porto Rico. 



Corythoichthys cayorum Evermann and Kendall, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 

 XVII, 1897, 128, pi. 7, fig. 7, near Crawfish Bar, Key West, Fla. 



1898. Hippichthys spicifer (Riippell). 



Tropical Pacific; recorded from Tehuantepec. 



Syngnathus spicifer Riippell, Neue Wirb., Fische, about 1830, 143. 



Genus 638. DORYICHTHYS Kaup. 



Doryichthys Kaup, Archiv Naturgesch., 1853, 233 (Z>. bilineatus Heckel). 



1899. Doryichthys lineatus Valenciennes. 



Tropical parts of Atlantic from Cuba to Brazil. 



Doryichthys lineatus Valenciennes, in Kaup, Lophobranchii, 1856, 59, 

 Bahia, Mexico, and Guadeloupe. 



Genus 639. DORYRHAMPHUS Kaup. 



Doryrha.nphus Kaup, Archiv Naturgesch., 1853, 233 (D. excisus Kaup), 

 Choeroichthys Kaup, loc. cit., 1853, 233 {C. valenciennesi Kaup). 



1900. Doryrhamphus calif orniensis Gill. 



Gulf of California. 



Doryrhamphus calif orniensis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 

 1862, 284, Cape San Lucas, Lower California. 



1901. Doryrhamphus sierra Nichols. 



Porto Rico. 



Doryrhamphus sierra Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIV, 

 1915, 145, fig. 2, Porto Rico. 



Genus 640. ACUS *- Swainson. 



Acus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 333 {Syngna- 

 thus sequoreus "Yarrell"). 



Osphyolax Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXVII, 1875, 450 (0. 

 pellucidus Cope). 



1902. Acus eequoreus (Linnseus). Ocean pipefish. 



Open sea along coasts of Europe; recorded from New Orleans, some 



other species probably mistaken for it. 

 Syngnathus xquoreus Linnrcus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 417, open sea. 

 Syngnathus sibbaldi Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, 6, Scotland. 

 Nerophis maculata Rafinesque, Indice, 1810, 57, Palermo, Italy. 

 Nerophis anguineus Kaup, Lophobr., 1856, 65, Brownsey, Dorsetshire; 



Berwick. 



1903. Acus martinicensis (Bibron) Kaup. 



West Indies. 



Nerophis martinicensis (Bibron) Kaup, Lophobr., 1856, 67, Martinique. 



« We may adopt the generic name Aciu for the species of the old genus Nerophin (Rafinesque, Indice, 

 SIcil., 1810, 57, type Syngnathu* ophidian L.) in which a small caudal fin is present, the tail not ending in a 

 Qlament, as is the case in the type of Nerophis (Syngnathut ophidian L.) The name Acus, variously used 

 by authors, ia not preoccupied in binomial nomenclature. 



