CHECK-LIST OF THE FISHES AND FISH-LIKE VERTEBRATES 

 OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



Class I. LEPTOCARDII. The Lancelets. 



Order A. AMPHIOXI. The Cirrostomes. 



Family I. BRANCHIOSTOMATIDiB. The Lancelets. 



Genus 1. BEANCHIOSTOMA Costa. 



Branchiostoma Costa, Ceuui Zoologici j^apol., 49, 183i {luhricum=lanceolatum). 



1. Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas). European Lancelet ; Amphioxus. 



Mediterrauean ; southern England ; Scandinavia; Chesapeake Bay. 

 Lunar lanceolaius Pallas, Spicilegia ZooL, X, 19, 1774, Cornwall. 



2. Branchiostoma caribaeum Sundevall. JVest Indian Lancelet. 



Atlantic coast of America from Beaufort, N. C, to the mouth of the LaPlatay 

 abundant otf the Carolina coast and in localities in Florida (Port Tampa),. 

 Jamaica, Brazil, etc. 



Branchiostoma caribwiim Sundevall, Olfers, Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 1853, 12, St. 

 Thomas; Rio Janeiro. 



3. Branchiostoma californiense Gill. California Lancelet. 



Pacific coast of Xorth America from San Diego Bay southward. 

 Branchiostoma calif or nien sis Gill, in Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins 

 Univ., V, 241, 1893, San Diego, California. 



Genus 2. ASYMMETRON Andrews. 



Aaymmetron Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins Univ., v, 237, 1893 

 {lucayanum). 



4. Asymmetron lucayanum Andrews. Bahama Lancelet. 



Bernini and Nassau, Bahamas. 



Aaymmetron lucayanum Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins Univ., v, 

 237, 1893, Bemiui, Bahama Islands. 



Class II. MARSIPOBRANCHII. The Lampreys. 

 Order B. HYPEROTRETI. The Hagfishes. 

 Family II. HEPTATREMID-ffi. The Borers. 



Genus 3. POLISTOTKEMA Gill. 



PoUstotrema Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 30 (dombey). 



5. Polistotrema stouti (Lockington). California Hagfish; Lamperina. 



Coast of California; Monterey. 



Bdellostoma Htouti Lockington, Amor. Nat. 1878, 793, Eel River, California. 



Family III. MYXINIDiE. The Hagfishes. 



Genus 4. MYXINE Linnaeus. 



Myxine Linuieus, Systema Natur*, ed. x, 650, 1758 (f/lutinosa). 



6. Myxine glutinosa Linn;eus. Hagfish; Borer. 



North Atlantic, on both coasts. Not abundant in America; south to Delaware. 

 Myxine glutinosa Lianaius, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 650, 1758, Atlantic Ocean. 



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