CHECK LIST OF FISHES 469 



3797. Plectobranchus evides Gilbert. 



Coasts of Oregon and Washington. 



Plectobranchus evides Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1898, 102, 

 coasts of Oregon and Washington. 



Family 278. XIPHISTERID^ 



Genus 1336. XIPHISTER Jordan and Gilbert. 



Xiphidion Girard, Pac. R. R. 8urv., X, Pt. 4, Fishes, 1858, 119 (X. 



mucosum Girard); name preoccupied in Orthoptera. 

 Xiphister Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 135 



{Xiphidio7i mucosum Girard). 



3798. Xiphister mucosus (Girard). 



Monterej' to Alaska. 



Xiphidion mucosum Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, pt. 4, Fishes, 1858, 



119, South Farallon Island, off California. 

 Xiphidium cruoreum Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIII, 1873, 27, 



Sitka, Alaska. 



Genus 1337. EPIGEICHTHYS Hubbs. 



Epigeichthys Hubbs, Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. .\rts and I«etters, VII, 

 1926 {Xiphister rupestris Jordan and Gilbert). 



3799. Epigeichthys atropurpureus (Kittlitz). 



Pacific coast of America from .\laska to Monterey. 



Ophidium atropurpureum Kittlitz, Denkwiird, einer Reise Russ.-Amer., 



I, 1858, 225, Alaska. 

 Xiphister rupestris Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 



1880, 137, Monterey, Calif. 



Genus 1338. PHYTICHTHYS Hubbs. 



Xiphistes Jordan and Starks, Proc. Calif. .\cad. Sci., 2d ser., V, 1895, 



846 {Xiphistes chirus Jordan and Gilbert); name preoccupied in 



insects. 

 Phytichthys Hubbs, in Jordan, Class. Fishes, 1923, 234 {Xiphister chirus 



Jordan and Gilbert). 



3800. Phytichthys chirus (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Monterey to .\laska. 



Xiphister chirus Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 



135, Point Pinos, near Monterey, Calif. 

 Xiphistes ulvae Jordan and Starks, Fishes Paget Sound, Proc. Calif 



.\cad. Sci., 2d ser., V, 1895, 847, pi. 102, Waadda Island, Neah Bay. 



3801. Phytichthys versicolor (Gilbert and Burke). 



Bering Sea. 



Xiphistes versicolor Gilbert and Burke, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXX 

 1910, 88, fig. 33; Attu; Agattu, Bering Sea. 



Family 279. STICH.ffiID.S 



Genus 1339. STICH.^US Reinhardt. 



titichseus Reinhardt, K. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. Natur. og 



Math. Afhandl., VI, 1837, CX {Bknnius punclatus Fabricius). 

 Nologrammus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 147 (A', rothrocki 

 Bean); young example. 



3802. Stichaeus punctatus (Fabricius). Spotted snake hlenny. 



-Arctic seas from Greenland to northern Siberia, south to Bristol Bay 



and Newfoundland. 

 blennius punctatus Fabricius, Fauna Groenlandica, 1780, 153, Greenland. 

 Notogrammus rothrocki Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 146, 



Blover Bay aiifl ("ape Lisburno, Siberia. 



Genus 1340. PLAGIOGRAMMUS Bean. 



Plagiogrammus Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, 699 {P. 

 hopkinsi Bean). 



3803. Plagiogrammus hopkinsi Bean. 



Monterey Bay, ("aiif. 



Plagiogrammus hopkinsi Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, 700, 

 with fig. on p. 699; Monterey, Calif. 



