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2812. Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau. Barbero; Ocean tang. 



West Indies to Brazil. 



Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, Anim. Amer. Sud, Pois.s., 1855, 24, 



PI. XI, fig. 1, Bahia. 

 Acanthurus tractus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 208, Cuba. 

 Acronurus nigricuhis Poey, Enumeratio, 1875, 69, Cuba. 



2813. Acanthurus crestonis (Jordan and Starks). Barbero negro. 



West coast of Mexico and Central America, Mazatlan to Panama. 

 Teuthis crestonis Jordan and Starks, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 



1895, V, 485, pi. 47, Mazatlan. 



2814. Acanthurus aliala Lesson. Philosophe. 



East Indies to the west coast of Mexico; abundant at Socorro and 



Clarion Islands. 

 Acanthurus aliala Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., II, 1830, 150, Oualan. 

 Acanthurus glaucopareius Cuvicr and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



X, 1835, 139 (190), Oualan; Molucca. 



Genus 974. XESURTJS Jordan and Evermann. 



Xesurus Jordan and Evermann, Check List, 1895, 421 {Prionurus 

 punctatus Gill). 



2815. Xesurus punctatus (Gill). Cochinito. 



Cape San Lucas; Mazatlan; Creston Island. 



Prionurus punctatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 242, 



Cape San Lucas. 



2816. Xesurus clarionis Gilbert and Starks. 



Galapagos Islands. 



Xesurus clarionis Gilbert and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 



1896, 437, 445, Clarion Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Genus 975. CTENOCH.STUS Gill. 



Ctenodon Bonaparte, in Klunzingcr, Fische Rothen Meeres, 1884, 



I Theil, 54 {Acanthurus strigosus Bennett); name preoccupied. 

 Ctcnochxtus Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., YII, 1884, 277 {Acanthurus 

 strigosus Bennett). 



2817. Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy and Gaimard). Kale. 



South seas, recorded from Cocos Island. 



Acanthurus striatus Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage I'Uranie, Zool., 1824, 



373, pi. 63, fig. 3, Guam. 

 Acanthurus strigosus Bennett, Zool. Jour., IV, XIII, Art. Ill, 1828, 41, 



Honolulu. 

 Acanthurus ctenodon Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X, 



1835, 178 (241), pi. 289, the Carolines and New Guinea. 



Order RR. CATAPHRACTI 

 Family 225. SCORPiENID^. Rockfishes and scorpionfishes 



Genus 976. SEBASTES Cuvier. Rosefishes. 

 Scbastcs Cuvicr, R^gnc Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 166 {Perca norvegica 



A.scanius = Perca marina Linnseus). 

 Eusebastes Sauvage, Nouv. Archives Mus. Paris, 1878, (2), 1, 1421 



{Perca norvegica .\scanius). 



2818. Sebastes marinus (Linnaju.s). Rosefish; Redfish; Snapper; Hemdurgan; 



Red sea fish; Norway haddock. 

 North Atlantic, both coasts, south to Faroe Islands; Norway; Maine; 



in deep water off coast of middle New Jersey. 

 Perca marina Linna-us, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 290, Norway. 

 Perca norvegica .Ascanius, Icones Rev. Nat., II, 1772, 7, Norway. 

 Holocentrus sanguineus Faber, Natur. der Fische Islands, 1829, 126, 



Iceland. 

 Sebastes fascialus Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, 1854, 31, 



Provincetown, Mass. 

 Sebastes regulus Ekstrom, Skand. Fish., Ed. I, 197, plate only. 



