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2136. Vomer setapinnis (Mitchill). Jorohado; Moonfish; Horsefish; Blunt- 



nosed shiner; Sunfish; Pug-nosed shiner. 



Atlantic coast of America; from Maine to Florida. 



Zeus setapinnis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., 1815, 384, New- 

 York. 



Vomer broicnii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, 

 1,41 (189), pi. 256, New York. 



Argyreiosus unimaculatus Batchelder, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II, 

 1845, 78, Maine. 



Vomer curtus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XXII, 1870, 119, 

 Rhode Island. 



2137. Vomer setapinnis cubensis Nichols. 



Coast of Cuba. 



Vomer setapinnis cubensis Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVIIl, 1918, 672, Cuba. 



2138. Vomer dorsalis Gill. 



West coast of Africa, recorded from the West Indies. 



Vomer dorsalis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 436; after 



Giinther. 

 Argyreiosus setipinnis var. B. Giinther, Cat., II, 1860, 459, St. Vincent; 



Cape Verde Islands; West Indies. 

 Vomer senegalensis Guichenot, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 1865, 35, 



Senegal. 

 Vomer goreensis Guichenot, loc. cit., 37, Gorea. 



2139. Vomer spixii (Svvainson). 



West Indies south to Brazil. 



Platysomus spixii Swainson, Class. Fishes, etc., II, 1839, 250 and 406, 



Brazil; after Spix and Agassiz, pi. 37. 

 Platysomus tnicropteryx Swainson, loc. cit., 406, Pernambuco. 

 Vomer sanctx-marthse, columhianus, martinicensis, dominicensis, novae' 



boracensis, sanctx-petri, brasiliensis, cayennensis, and cubx Guichenot, 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 38 to 44, 1865, localities indicated 



by names. 



2140. Vomer declivifrons Meek and Hildebrand. 



Cape San Lucas to Peru. 



Vomer declivifrons Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool., 

 XV, 1925, 367, PI. XXIX, fig. 2, Panama. 



2141. Vomer gabonensis Guichenot. 



West Indies anri west coast of Africa. 



Vomer gabonensis Guichenot, Ann. Soc. Linn. Maine et Loire, 1865, 42, 

 Gaboon. 



Genus 735. ARGYREIOSUS Lacepede. Moonfishes. 



Selene Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 560 (5. argentea Lac6pMe = 



Zeus vomer L.). 

 Argyreiosus Lac6p^de, loc. cit., IV, 1803, 566 {Zeus vomer Linnaeus). 



2142. Argyreiosus vomer (Linnrrus). Moonfish; Jorobado; Lookdown; Horse- 



head: Hair-finned dory; Hair-finned silverfish; Dollarfish. 



Tropical America, on both coasts; Cape Cod to Brazil; Lower California 

 to Peru. 



Zeus vomer Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 266, America. 



Zeus gallus Linnseus, loc. cit., America; after Artedi. 



Zeus capillaris Mitchill, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc, I, 383, 1815, New 

 York. 



Zeus rostratus Mitchill, loc. cit., 384, New York. 



Zeus geometricus Mitchill, Amer. Month. Mag., II, 245, 1818, New York. 



Argyriosus triacanlhus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fish., 1839, 250, 

 Brazil. 



Argyriosus filamentosus Swainson, loc. cit., 250; after Cuvier and Va- 

 lenciennes. 



Argyriosus setifer Swainson, loc. cit., 407; after Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Argyriosus mauriceii Swainson, loc. cit., 408, Brazil. 



Argyriosus milchilli DeKay, N. Y. Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 126, New Yor*. 



2143. Argyreiosus cerstedii (Liitken). 



Pacific coast, Mazatlan to Panama. 



Selene oerstedii LUtken, Spolia Atlantica, 1880, 144, Punta Arenii*. 



