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3204. Peristedion platycephalum (Goode and Bean). 



West Indies; Barbados. 



Peristedium platycephalum Goode and Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 XII, 1SS6, No. 5, 167, off Barbados. 



3205. Peristedion barbiger (Garman). 



Off Bay of Panama in deep water. 

 Peridcilium barbiger Garman, Mem. 

 110, off Bav of Panama. 



Zool. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 1899, 



3206. Peristedion crustosum (Garman). 

 Off Bay of Panama in deep water. 

 Peris>lediuin irustnsum Garman, Mem. 

 1S99, 112, Pi. A, off Bay of Panama. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., XXIV, 



3207. 



Genus 1126. VULSICULUS Jordan and Evermann. 



V ulsicidns Jordan and Evermann, Check List, 1895, 489 {Peristedion 

 imberbe Poey). 



Vulsiculus imberbis (PoejO- 

 Gulf of ^Mexico. 

 Pttrystcdion imberbe Poey, Memoriae, II, 1861, 367, Cuba; apparently 



never described. 

 Peristedion microncmus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., IX, 1870, 



321, Cuba; substitute n.ame on discovery of the minute barbels. 



Family 246. TRIGLID.® 



3208. 



Genus 1127. COLOTEIGIA Gill. 



Culolrigla Gill, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. 

 stcar?isi Jordan and Swain). 



Colotrigla stearnsi (Jordan and Swain). 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Prionotus stearnsi Jordan and Swain, Proc. 

 1884, 541. Pcnsacola, Fla. 



XXVII, 1905, 240 {Prionotus 



U. S. Nat. Mus., VII, 



Genus 1128. GURNARDUS Jordan and Evermann. 



Gurnardus Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 1898, 2152 {Prionotus gyinnoslethus Gilbert). 



3209. Gurnardus birostratus (Richardson). 



Gulf of Fonscca, Pacific coast of Central America. 



Prionotus birostratus Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Ichth., pt. II, 1845, 81, 

 April, Gulf of Fonseca, Pacific coast of Central America. 



3210. Gurnardus gymnostethus (Gilbert). 



Gulf of California. 



Prionotus gymnostethus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 1891, C59, 

 Gulf of California, in shallow water. 



3211. Gurnardus xenisma (Jordan and Bollman). 



Pacific Ocean, off coast of Colombia. 



Prionotus xenisma Jordan and Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 

 1889, 169, Pacific coast of Colombia. 



3212. Gurnardus loxias Jordan. 



Pacific coast of Central America. 



Prionotus loxias Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIX, 1896, 452, Bay 

 of Panama. 



3213. Gurnardus ruscarius (Gilbert and Starks). 



Panama Bay; Mazatlan; Masdalena liay. 



Prionotus ruscarius Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, 

 1904, 165, PI. XXVII. Panama Bay. 



Genus 1129. MERULINUS Jordan and Evermann. 



Mcrultnus Jordan and Kvermaiiii, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 1898, 

 2148 {Triyla Carolina Linnu,'us^. 



