CHECK LIST OF FISHES 451 



Family 261. PTEROPSARIDiE 



Genus 1261. HYPSICOMETES Goode. 



Hypsicometes Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1S80, 347 {H.gobioides 



Goode) . 



3628. Hypsicometes gobioides Goode. 



Gulf Stream. 



Hypsicometes gobioides Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 348, 



Gulf Stream at Albatross station 871, 40° 2' 54" N., 70° 23' 40" W., 



in 115 fathoms. 



Family 262. AMMODYTID.ffl. Sand lances or sand launces 



Genus 1262. AMMODYTES Linnseus. Sand launces; Sand lances. 



Ammodytes Linnseus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 247 {A. tobianus Linnaeus). 

 Argyrotsenia Gill, Fishes East Coast U. S., Suppl. to Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 40 (Ammodytes vittatus DeKay; probably a 



deformed example). 



3629. Ammodytes americanus DeKay. Sand launce; Sand lance; Sand eel; 



Lant. 

 Newfoundland to Cape May and Cape Hatteras; abundant on sandy 



shores. 

 Ammodytes americanus DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 317, 



Stratford, Conn. 

 Ammodytes vittatus DeKay, loc. cit., 318, pi. 60, fig. 197, New York. 



3630. Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt. 



Greenland to Cape Cod. 



Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Afhandl., VII, 



1838, 131, Greenland. 



3631. Ammodytes personatus Girard. Sand launce; Sand lance. 



Japan to Alaska, south to Monterey, Calif. 



Ammodytes personatus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VIII, 1856, 

 137, Cape Flattery, Wash. 



3632. Ammodytes alascanus Cope. Alaska sand lance 



North Pacific coast of North America, Sitka to Aleutian Islands. 

 Ammodytes alascanus Cope, Proc. .\m. Phil. Soc, XIII, 1873, 30, 

 Sitka, Alaska. 



Family 263. BLEEKERIID^ 



Genus 1263. RHYNCHIAS Gill. 



Rhynchias Gill, in Jordan and Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 

 1898, 2841 (Ammodytes septipinnis Pallas); species and genus doubtful, 

 not .seen by recent authors. 



3633. Rhynchias septipinnis (Pallas). 



Kamchatka. 



Ammodytes septipinnis Pallas, Rosso- A-siat., Ill, 1811, 227, Tab 

 XLVIII, fig. 3, Kamchatka. 



Family 264. BATHYMASTERIDuE. Ronquils 



Genus 1264. BATHYMASTER Cope. 



Bathymaster Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIII, 1873, 31 (B. signatua 

 Cope) . 



3634. Bathymaster signatus Cope. 



Shores of Alaska. 



Bathymaster signatus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. XIII, 1873, 31, near 

 Sitka, Alaska. 



3635. Bathymaster caeruleofasciatus Gilbert and Burke. 



Southern Bering Sea. 



Bathymaster caeruleofasciatus Gilbert and Burke, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 XXX, 1910, ^4, fig. 29, Agattu Island, Alaska. 



