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3955. Batrachoides goldmani Evermann and Goldsborough. 



Rio Usumacinta at Montecristo, Tabasco, Mexico. 



Batrachoides goldmani Evermann and Goldsboroue;h, Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Com., XXI, 1901, 159, fig. S, Rio Usumacinta, Mexico. 



3956. Batrachoides boulengeri Gilbert and Starks. 



Bay of Panama. 



Batrachoides boulengeri Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., 

 IV, 1904, 182, PI. XXXI, Bay of Panama. 



3957. Batrachoides pacific] (Giinther). 



Panama. 



Batrachus pacifici Giinther, Cat., Ill, 1861, 173, Panama. 



Genus 1417. OPSANUS Rafinesque. Toadfishes. 



Opsanus Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., II, 1818, 203 (0. cerapalus 



Rafinesque = 6'adus tau Linnseus). 

 Batrachus of authors, not of Schneider. 



3958. Opsanus tau (Linnajus). Toadfish; Snpo; Slimer; Oysterfish; Scorpion. 



Atlantic coast, Massachusetts to the ^^ est Indies. 



Gadus tail Linnajus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 1760, 439, Charleston, S. C. 



Cottus glaber Schopf, Schrift. Naturf. Freunde, VII, 1788, 146, Long 



Island. 

 Cottus chietodon Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 62, New York; 



after Schopf. 

 Lophius bufo Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc, I, 1815, 463, New York. 

 Opsanus cerapalus Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., II, 1818, 204, 



south coast of Long Island. 

 Batrachoides vcfhultas LeSucur, M(5m. Mus. Hist. Nat., V, 1819, 157, 



pi. 17, coast of Rhode Island. 

 Batrachoides variegata LeSueur, Jour^ /Vcad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., Ill, pt. 2, 



1824, 398, Egg Harbor, N. J. 

 Batrachus cclatus DeKay, New York Fauna: Fishes, 1842, 170, pi. 50, 



fig. 161, New York. 



3959. Opsanus hildebrandi Breder. 



("olon Market, Panama. 



Opsanus hildebrandi Breder, Amer. Mus. Novit., No. 188, Sept. 28, 

 1925, I, Colon Market, Panama; place of collection unknown. 



3960. Opsanus pardus (Goode and Bean). Sapo. 



Gulf of Slexico in deep water. 



Batrachus tau pardus Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 11, 1879, 

 336, Pensacola snapper banks. 



Genus 1418. PORICHTHYS Girard. Midshipmen. 



Porichthys Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 141 (P. 

 notntus Girard). 



3961. Porichthys notatus Girard. Singingfish; Midshipman; Cabezon; Sapo. 



Pacific coast from Puget Sound to Panama. 



Porichthys notatus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII, 1854, 141, 

 San Francisco. 



3962. Porichthys margaritatus (Richardson). 



Pacific coast of tropical America. 



Batrachus margaritatus Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 1844-1843, 



67, Pacific coast of Central America. 

 Porichthys nautopxdium Jordan and Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



XII, 1889, 171, Pacific Ocean off coast of Colombia in 16 fathoms. 



3963. Porichthys greenei Gilbert and Starks. 



Panama Bay. 



Porichthys greenei Gilbert and Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., IV, 1904, 

 184, Panama Bay. 



Genus 1419. NAUT0P.3EDIUM Jordan. 



Nautopspdium Jorrlan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1919, 342 {Batrachus 

 porosissimus Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



