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Genus 659. CHIROSTOMA Swainson. Pescados blancos. 



Chirostoma Swainson, Class. Fishes, etc., II, 1839, 243 (Atherina hum- 



holdiiana Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Atherinoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., Japan, XXV, 1853, 40 (Chiros- 



toma vomerina Cuvier and Valenciennes = yl</ien'na humholdtiana 



Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Atherinichthys Bleeker, loo. cit., 40 (Atherina humholdtiana Cuvier and 



Valenciennes) . 

 Heterognathus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 198 



{Atherina humholdtiana Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Lethostole Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Mid. Amer., 1896, 



792 {Chirostoma estor Jordan). 

 Eslopsarum Jordan, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XIX, 1895, 330 (Chirostoma 



jordani Woohnan). 



Subgenus ESLOPSARUM Jordan. 



1956. Chirostoma jordani Woolman. 



Basin of Rio Lerma and Valley of Mexico. 



Chirostoma jordani Woolman, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XIV, 1894, 62, 



pi. 2, canals at Salamanca and City of Mexico. 

 Atherinichthys brevis Therese von Baiern, Anz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



1894, 149, Lake Cuitzeo, Mexico. 



1957. Chirostoma mezquital Meek. 



Durango. 



Chirostoma mezquital Meek, Field Col. Mus., pub. 93, V, 1904, 170, 

 Durango, Mexico. 



1958. Chirostoma labarcae Meek. 



Rio Lerma, Mexico. 



Chirostoma laharcx Meek, Field Col. Mus., Zool., Ill, 1902, 113, Rio 

 Lerma, Mexico. 



1959. Chirostoma arge (Jordan and Snyder). 



Rio Verde, Mexico. 



Eslopsarum arge Jordan and Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., XIV, 

 1899, 133, fig. 12, Rio Verde, Mexico. 



Subgenus CHIROSTOMA Swainson. 



1960. Chirostoma bartoni Jordan and Evermann. 



Tributary of the Rio Lerma, near Guanajuato, Mexico; Lake Patzcuaro. 

 Chirostoma bartoni Jordan and Evermann, Fish. North and Mid. Amer., 



1896, 793, tributary of the Rio Lerma, near Guanajuato, Mexico. 

 Chirostoma attenuatum Meek, Field Col. Mus., Zool., Ill, 1902, 112, 



Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico. 



1961. Chirostoma zirahuen Meek. 



Lago de Zirahuen, Mexico. 



Chirostoma zirahuen Meek, Field Col. Mus., Zool., Ill, 1902, 114, Lago 

 de Zirahuen, Mexico. 



1962. Chirostoma patzcuaro Meek. 



Lago de Patzcuaro, Mexico. 



Chirostoma patzcuaro Meek, Field Col. Mus., Zool., Ill, 1902, 113, 

 Lago de Patzcuaro, Mexico. 



1963. Chirostoma humboldtianum (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Pescado 



bianco de Chalso. 

 Lakes near the City of Mexico; La Laguna, Jalisco, Mexico. 

 Atherina humholdtiana Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X, 



1835, 355 (479), Mexico. 

 Atherina vomerina Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 357 (481), lake 



near City of Mexico. 



1964. Chirostoma regani Jordan and Hubbs. 



Valley of Mexico; Lake Patzcuaro. 



Chirostoma regani Jordan and Hubbs, Leland Stanford Univ. Pub., 

 Univ. Ser., 1919, 74, Xochomilco, Morelos, Mexico. After Chiros- 

 toma breve Regan; not of Steindachner. 



Subgenus LETHOSTOLE Jordan and Evermann. 



