CHECK LIST OF FISHES 449 



Echeneis viitaia Lowe, Proc. ZooL Soc. Loud., 1839, 89, Madeira. 



Echeneis guaican Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 248, Cuba. 



Echeneis verticalis Poey, loc. cit., 253, Cuba. 



Echeneis metallica Poey, loc. cit., 252, Cuba. 



Echeneis fusca Gronow, Cat. Fish., ed. Gray, 1854, 92; after Linnseus. 



Echeneis neucratoides Zuicuw, Nova Acta Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropol., IV, 



1789, 279, no locality. 

 Echeneis lineata Holbrook, Ichth. South Carolina, 1855, 101, Charleston, 



S. C; not of Menzies. 

 Echeneis holbrooki Giinther, Cat., II, 1860, 382, Jamaica. 



Genus 1253. REMILEGIA GiU. 



Remilegia Gill. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 239 {Echeneis 



scutata Giinther). 



3613. Remilegia australis (Bennett). 



Tropical seas; recorded by Doctor Liitken from 10° N., 39° W. 

 Echeneis australis Bennett, Nar. Whaling Vovage, II, 1840, 273, pis. 



24-26. 

 Echeneis scutata Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1860, 401, pi. 10, 



fig. B, Ceylon. 



Genus 1254. REMORA Forster. 



Rcmora Forster, Cat. Aniin. N. Amer., 1770, 20 {Echeneis rctnora 

 Linnffius). 



3614. Remora remora (Linnseus). Rcmora; Sucker; Pcga. 



Warm seas, north to New York and San Francisco. 



Echeneis remora Linna?us, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 260, Pelago Indico. 



Echeneis squalipeta Daldorf, Skrivt. Naturrh. Selsk., II, 1793, 157, 



Atlantic Ocean between the tropics. 

 Echeneis jacohsea Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 89, Madeira. 

 Echeneis remoroides Blecker, Natur. Tijd. Ned. Ind. (Batoe, IX, 1855, 



70, Batoe). 

 Echeneis parva Gronow, Cat. Fish., cd. Gray. 1854, 92, no locality; after 



Linna?us. 

 Echeneis poslica Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 255, Habana. 



Genus 1255. REMORINA Jordan and Evermann. 



Remorina Jordan and Evcrinaiui, Check List, 1895, 490 {Echeneis 

 albc-<cens Teniininck and Schlegel). 



3615. Remorina albescens (Temminck and Schlegel). 



Tropical Pacific, northward to San Francisco and Japan; common at 



Galapagos Islands. 

 Echeneis albescens Temminck and Schlegel, Faima Japonica, Poiss., 



1845, 272. pi. 120, tig. 4, Nagasaki, Japan. 

 Genus 1256. REMOROPSIS Gill. 



Remoropsis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XVI, 1864, 60 {Echeneis 



brachyplcra Lowe). 



3616. Remoropsis brachyptera (Lowe). Swordfish sucker. 



Warm seas; occasionally north to Cape Cod. 



Echeneis brachyptera Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1839, 89, Madeira. 



Echeneis sexdecim-lamellata Evdoux and Gervais, Voy. Favorite, V 



1839, 77, pi. 31, Indian Ocean. 

 Echeneis quatuordecimlaminatus Storer, Rept. Fishes Mass., 1839, 155, 



Holmes Hole. 

 Echeneis pallida Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845, 



271, pi. 120, fig. 2. 3, Japan. 

 Echeneis nieuhofii Bleeker, Sumatra, Naturk. Tijd. Neder. Indie, IV, 



1853, 279, Sumatra, Priaman. 



Genus 1257. PHTHEIRICHTHYS Gill. 



I'htheirichthys Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 239 

 (Echeneis lineata Menzies). 



3617. Phtheirichthys tropicus (Euphrasen). 



Tropical seas, ranging north to South Carolina and Pensacola. 

 Echeneis tropica Euphrasen, Nya. Handl., XII, 1791, 315, Atlantic 



i)etween the tropics. 

 Echeneis apicalis Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 254, Cuba. 

 lEcheneia sphyraenarum Poey, loc. cit., 255, Cuba, on barracudas. 



