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Genus 1459. RANZANIA Nardo. King of the mackerels. 



Ranzania Nardo, Ann. Sci. Rcgn. Lombard. Venet., X, 1840, 105 

 (Telrodon truncatus Retzius). 



4072. Ranzania truncata (Retzius). 



Pelagic; occasionally on the Atlantic coast; Bermudas; Martinique. 

 Telrodon truncatus Retzius, Vet. Ak. Nya. Handl., VI, 1785, 2, 121, 

 Brazil, 



4073. Ranzania makua Jenkins. 



Open Pacific, Hawaii to Japan; very rare, once found on Pisnio Beach 



near Occano, San Luis Obispo County, Calif. 

 Ranzania makua Jenkins, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., V, 1895, 779. 



with colored plate (frontispiece), Honolulu; probably not different 



from Ranzania truncata; see Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIV, 



1913, 455. 



Order AAA. PEDICUIATI 



Family 303. LOPHIIDiE. Fishing frogs 



Genus 1460. lOPHIUS linn^us. 



Lophius Linnaeus Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 236 {Lophius piscatorius 

 Linna;us); after Artedi. 



4074. Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus. Fishing frog; Monkfish; Goosejish; 



Angler; Allmouth; Bellowsfish. 

 North Atlantic, on both coasts. 

 Lophius piscatorius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, 1766, 402, Seas of 



Europe. 

 Lophius americamis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 



1837, 380, Philadelphia. 



Genus 1461. LOPHIOMUS Gill. 



Lophiomus Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882. 552 (Lophius setigerus 

 Vahl.) 



4075. Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl). 



Pacific Ocean; not uncommon in rather deep water off coasts of China 



and Japan; one specimen from Albatross station 2805, southwest of 



Panama. 

 Lophius setigerus Vahl, Skrivt. Naturh., IV, 1797, 214, tab. 3, figs. 5 



and 6, China Sea. 

 Lophius viviparus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 142, 1801, tab. 



32, China Sea; after Vahl. 



Family 304. ANTENNARID.ffi. Frogfishes 



Genus 1462. HISTRIO Fischer. 



Hislrio ^^ Fischer, Zoog., Tab. Syn. lUust., Ed. Ill, I, 1813 {Lophius 



histrio Linna;us). 

 Pterophryne Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 90 {Chironecles 



Ixvigalus Cuvier; name preoccupied). 

 Plerophrynoides Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, 1878, 216 (Chironectes 



Isevigatus Cuvier); substitute for Pterophrijne). 



4076. Histrio pictus (Cuvier and Valenciennes). Mousefish; Sargassumfish. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic; abundant on our Gulf coast and occa- 

 sional to Cape Hatteras and beyond. 



Lophius tumidus Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 1757, 400, open sea; pre- 

 Linna;an. 



Chironectes pictus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 

 1837, 393, Surinam. 



Chironectes tumidus Cuvier and Valenciennes, loc. cit., 397, Sargasso Sea. 



Chironectes arcticus Diiben and Koren, K. Vet. Akad. Stockholm, 1844, 

 72, Vadso, Norway, carried northward on the Gulf Stream. 



" Name questionable on account of error in the published diagnosis, the description interchanged with 

 that of Lophiut. 



