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2042. Escolar niger (Poey). 



Cuba. 



Thyrsites niger Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 74, deep water off Cuba. 



Genus 687. RUVETTUS Cocco. Escolares. 



Ruveitus Cocco, Giorn. Sci. Sicilia, XLlI, 1829, 2 {R. pretiosus Cocco). 

 Aplurus Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, II, 1841, 180 {A. simplex 



Lowe) . 

 Acatiihoderyna Cantraine, Jour. Acad. Sci. Belles-Lett res Bru.xelles, X, 

 1837 {A. temmincki). 



2043. Ruvettus pretiosus ^^ Cocco. Escolar; Rovetto; Ruvetto; Chicolar; Oilfish; 



Scourfish; Plaintail. 

 Mediterranean and westward to Cuba in Atlantic. 

 Ruvetlus pretiosus Cocco, in Giornale di Scienze per la Sicilia, XLII, 



1829, 21, Messina. 

 Telragonurus simplex Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833, 143, Madeira. 

 Ruvettus temminckii Cantraine, Giorn. Sci. Ft. Litt. Pisa, 1833, Malta; 



fide Poey. 

 Thyrsilea acanthoderma Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 78, Madeira. 

 Thyrsites scholaris Poey, Memorias, I, 1854, 372, pi. 32, fig. 1, Cuba. 



Genus 688. EPINNULA Poey. 



Epiiuiula Puey, Moiuorias, I, 1854, 369 (E. magistralis Poey). 



2044. Epinnula magistralis Poey. Domine. 



Habana. 



Epinnula magistralis Poey, Memorias, I, 1854, 369, Habana. 



Genus 689. NEALOTUS Johnson. 



Xealotus Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 434 {N. tripes Johnson). 



2045. Nealotus tripes Johnson. 



About Madeira in deep water; between the Bahamas and Bermudas. 



Xenliitiis tri/ies Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 434, Madeira. 



Genus 690. PROMETHICHTHYS Gill. Conejos. 



Prometheus Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., II, 1841, 181, Madeira 

 {Psempylus prometheus Cuvier and Valenciennes); name preoccupied. 



Promethichthys Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., VI, 1893, 115 and 123 

 {Prometheus atlanticus howe = Gempylus prometheus Cuvier and Va- 

 lenciennes). 



2046. Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Rabbitfish; 



Coelho; Conejo; Bermuda catfish. 

 Tropical .\tlantic; Cuba; Bermuda. 

 Gernptjlus prometheus Cuvier and Valencienne.s, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VIII, 



1831, 1.56 (213), pi. 222, St. Helena. 



Genus 691. PTAX *'' Jordan and Evermann. 



Ptax Jordan and Evorniaiiii, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 4th .ser., XVI, 

 Apr. 27, 1927, 504 (Dicrolus parvipinnis Goode and Bean). 



2047. Ptax parvipinnis (Goode and Bean). 



Western .\tlantic in deep water. 



Dicrotus parvipinnis Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 201, fig. 212, 



Gulf Stream at Albatross .stations 2537, 2542, and 2601, at about 



40° N., 70° \V. 



Genus 692. GEMPYLUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. Snake mackerels. 



Gempylus Cuvier and N'alencienncs, Hist. Xat. Poiss., VIII, 1831, 152 



(207 j (6'. serpens Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Lemnisoma Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Poiss., 1826 (1831), 100, the date 



later tlian that of Gempylus, as the work of sub.sequent Cuvier and 



Valenciermcs is quoted by Lesson (Lemnisoma thyrsitoides Le.s.son). 

 Zypothyca Swain.son, Nat." Hist. Fish., Amphib., etc., II, 1839, 239 



{Gempylus coluber Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



« A si>ecies very similar, regarded by Doctor Oudger as the same, is RuceUus pretiosus \Veber = /i. paci- 

 ftcus Jordan and Jordan, from llic tropical I'aciflc north to Hawaii. 



'' From irraf, a rabbit, conejo, a .Sjianish name of Promethichthys. The Rcnus is cliaracterized by the 

 number of fin rays— U. XXI, II; A. II, 8— while in /^rom«//iic/i//ii/.'( the rays are D. XVIII, 19-11; A. 16-11. 

 Dicrolus has two lateral lines, the fin rays about as In Promelhichthyi. 



