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3949. Otophidium welshi Nichols and Breder. 



Coast of Texas. 



Otophidium welshi Nichols and Breder, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXXV, 



1922, 15, fig. 3, Texas, Grampus station 10178, southwest from Brayes 



Light. 



Family 292. CARAPID^ 



Genus 1414. CARAPUS Rafinesque. 



Carapus Rafinesque, Indioe, ISIO, 57, restricted by the International 



Commission of Nomenclature to Ophidism iniberbe ^^ Linnaius. 

 Fierasfer Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 1, II, 1817, 239 (Ophidium imberbe 



Linnaeus). 

 Echiodon Thompson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 55 (E. drummondi 



Thompson). 

 Diaphasia Lowe, loc. cit., 1843, 92 {Gyvinotus acus Briinnich). 

 Oxybeles Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 1844-48, 73 



(0. homci Richardson). 

 Porobronchus Kaup, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1860, 272 (P. linearis Kaup; 



larva of Fierasfer acus). 

 Vexillifer Gasco, Bull. Assoc. Nat. Med. Napoli, 1870, 59 (F. dephil- 



lippi Gasco; larva of Fierasfer aciitus). 

 Lefroyia Jones, Zoologist, IX, 1874, 3838 (L. bermudensis Jones). 



3950. Carapus affinis (Giinther). Pearlfish. 



Lower California to Panama; abundant about the Pearl Islands off 



Panama, north to Point Loma, >San Diego, Calif. 

 Fierasfer affinis Giinther, Cat., IV, 1862, 381, no locality given. 

 Fierasfer dubius Putnam, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVI, 1874, 344, 



Pearl Islands. 



3951. Carapus arenicola (Jordan and Gilbert). 



Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Fierasfer arenicola Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 

 1881, 303, Mazatlan, Mexico. 



3952. Carapus bermudensis (Jones). 



West Indies; recorded from Bermuda, Habana, Key West, and St. 



Thomas. 

 Lefroyia bermudensis Jones, Zoologist, IX, 1874, 3837, Bernnida. 



Genus 1415. lEPTOFIERASFER Meek and Hildebrand. 



Leptofierasfer Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool., XV, 

 1928, 964 (L. macrurus Meek and Hildebrand). 



3953. Leptofierasfer macrurus Meek and Hildebrand. 



Leptofierasfer macrurus Meek and Plildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Zool., XV, 1928, 964, PI. XCIX, fig. 1, Chame Point, Panama. 



Suborder HAPLODOCI 



Family 293. BATRACHOIDID.a: 



Genus 1416. BATRACHOIDES Lacepede. 



Bdlrachoidcs Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss.,II, 1800, 451 {B. tau Lac6p6de); 



not Gadus tau hinnisus = Batrachus surinamensis Schneider. 

 Batrachus Schneider, ed. Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 42 {B. surinamensis 



Schneider) ; substitute for Batrachoides. 

 Batrictius Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815, 82; substitute for Batrachoides. 



3954. Batrachoides surinamensis (Schneider). Sapo. 



Coast of (Juiana and Brazil. 



Batrachus surinamensis Schneider, ed. Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 43, 

 Surinam; from a specimen in the museum of Paris. 



*> With this decision we do not wiUingly concur, as the name Carapus is clearly cognate with Gymnotus 

 carapo, a !>pecies ol Gymnotid^e included but not named in the original account. 



