370 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Genus 991. SEBASTICHTHYS Gill. 



Sebastichthys Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 278, 329 

 {Sebastes nigrocinctus Ayres). 



2885. Sebastichthys nigrocinctus (Ayres). Black-banded rock cod. 



Monterey Bay to Naha Bay. Alaska. 



Sebndes nigrocinctus Ayres, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1859, 25, 

 fig. 6, San Francisco. 



Genus 992. METZELAARIA Jordan. 



Metziiaaria Jordan, Class. Fishes, 1923, 209 {Scorpsena tridecimspinosa 

 Metzelaar). 



2886. Metzelaaria tridecimspinosa (Metzelaar). 



Caril:)bean Sea. 



Scorpasna tridecimspinosa Metzelaar, Tropisch Atlantische Visschen, 

 1919, 146, fig. 44, Bonaire, Aruba. 



Genus 993. SCORP^NODES Bleeker. 



Scorpxnodes Bleeker, Nat. Hist. Ned. Ind., XIII, 1857, 371 {Scorpsena 



polylepis Bleeker). 

 Sebastopsis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 278 (Scorpxna 



polylepis Bleeker). 

 Sebastodes Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool., V, 1873, 1 {Sebastes minutus 



Cuvier); not Sebastodes Gill, 1861. 



2887. Scorpsenodes xyris (Jordan and Gilbert). 



West coast of Mexico. 



Sebastopsis xyris Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 369, Cape San Lucas, Lower California. 



Genus 994. HELICOLENUS Goods and Bean. 



Helicolenus Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1896, 248 {Scorpsena 

 dactylopterus De la Roche). 



2888. Helicolenus dactylopterus (De la Roche). Seran imperial; Fancgal; 



Cardonniera; Scorfanudi; Funal; Crabra; Redfish. 



Deep waters of Atlantic off both coasts from Narragansett and Chesa- 

 peake Bays, and to coasts of Italy and Spain. 



Scorpasna dactyloptera De la Roche, Ann. Mus., XIII, 1809, pi. 22, 

 fig. 2, Ivica, Barcelona. 



Sebastes imperilalis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 

 1829, 246 (336), Nice. 



Helicolenus maderensis Goode and Bean, Oceanic Ichth., 1895, 250, 

 Madeira, and in the Gulf Stream. 



Genus 995. SCORP.fflNA (Artedi) Linnseus. 



Scorpsena (Artedi) Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 1758 266 {S. porcus 



Linnajus). 

 Parascorpsena Bleeker, Versl. Ak. Amsterdam., IX, pt. 3, 1876, 295 



{Scorpsena picta Kuhl and van Hasselt in Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Pseudosebastes Sauvage, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, II, 1878 



{Sebastes bougainvillei Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



2889. Scorpsena atlantica Nichols and Breder. 



Coast of Texas. 



Scorpsena russula atlantica Nichols and Breder, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 XXXVII, 1924 (Feb. 21), 21, PI. VII, off Galveston, Tex. 



2890. Scorpsena colesi Nichols. 



Coast of North Carolina. 



Scorpsena colesi Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 1914, 

 537, fig. 1, Cape Lookout, N. C. 



2891. Scorpaena plumieri Bloch. Rescacio; Poison grouper; Plumier'a 



pigfoot. 



West Indies and Brazil, north to Florida; rarely northward to Woods 

 Hole. 



Scorpjina plumieri Bloch, Nya. Handl. Stockh., X, 1789, 234, Mar- 

 tinique. 



Scorfxna bufo Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 221 (.306), Martinique. 



Scorpsena rascacio Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 169, Cuba. 



Apistes exul Gosse, Nat. Sojourn Jamaica, 1851, 207, Jamaica. 



