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2160. Oligeplites palonaeta (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. 



Chorinemus palometa Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poi«5S., VIII, 

 1831, 288 (392), Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. 



2161. Oligoplites altus (Giinther). Jurel; Monda. 



Pacific coast of tropical America; Panama. 



Chorinemus altus Giinther, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, VI, 1869, 433, 

 Panama. 



2162. Oligoplites mundus Jordan and Starks. 



West coast of Mexico; Mazatlan. 



Oligoplites mundus Jordan and Starks, in Jordan and Evermann, 

 Check List, 1896, 344, Mazatlan, Mexico (name only); Jordan 

 and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1898, 2844, San 

 Juan Lagoon, Mexico. 



2163. Oligoplites refulgens Gilbert and Starks. 



Panama. 



Oligoplites refulgens Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, 

 1904, 73, Panama. 



Family 180. SERIOLID^ 



Genus 740. NAUCRATES Rafinesque. 



Naucrates Rafinesque, Caratteri 1810, 44 (Centronofus conductor 



Lac^pede = <?as/eros^eus ductor Linnaeus). 

 Centronotus Laciipede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 311, 51 (C. conductor 



Lac6pMe). 

 Xystophorus Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844, 52, pi. 30, 



fig. 22 (larval form, no species named). 

 Nauclerus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 1833, 247 



(A'^. compressus, Cuvier and Valenciennes; young of Naucrates). 



2164. Naucrates ductor. (Linnaeus). Pilot fish; Romero. 



Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to West Indies. 



Gasterosteus ductor Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758, 295, "in Pelago." 



Centronotus conductor Lacepdde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, 311, no 



locality. 

 Naucrates fanfarus Rafinesque, Caratteri, 1810, 45, Sicily. 

 Naucrates novehoracensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



VIII, 1831, 239 (325), New York. 

 Seriola dussumieri Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., IX, 1833, 162 



(217), Gulf of Bengal. 

 Seriola succincta Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 163 (218), south of 



St. Helena. 

 Nauclertis compressus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 185 (249), 



pi. 263, fig. 1, Molucca. 

 Nauclerus abbreviatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 187 (251), 



Atlantic Ocean. 

 Nauclerus brachycentrus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 187 (253), 



Indian Ocean. 

 Nauclerus triacanthus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 188 (253), 



Atlantic Ocean. 

 Nauclerus annularis Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 189 (254), south 



of St. Helena. 

 Nauclerus lecurus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 189 (255), south 



of St. Helena. 

 Naucrates cyanophrys Swainson, Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, 412, Palermo. 

 Naucrates serratus Swainson, loc. cit., 413, Palermo. 

 Thynnus pompilus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, 1854, 123, Mediterranean; 



seas of America and Spain. 

 Xystophorus Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1844, 52, Palermo. 



2165 Naucrates polysarcus Fowler. 

 Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Naucrates polysarcus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LVII, 1905, 

 62, west coast of Mexico, 



