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153. Acipenser brevirostris LeSuenr. Short-7iosed Sturgeon. 



Capo Cod to Florida; rare northward. 



Acipenstr brevirostnim LeSueur, Traus. Amer. Phil. Soc, i, 1818, 390, Delaware 

 River. 



Genus 65. SCAPHIRHYNCHUS Hackel. Shovel-nose Sturgeons. 



Scaphiihynchuslleckel, Ann. Wiener Mus. Naturgesch., i, 1835, 71 (i'afinesquei=^ 

 platorhynchus). 



154. Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus (Rafinesque). Shovel-nose Sturgeon; TTltite 



Sturgeon. 

 Mississippi Valley, and streams of Western and Southern States; common. 

 Acipenser platorhynchus Ratincsque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 80, 1820, Ohio River. 



Subclass HOLOSTEI. The Bony Ganoids. 

 Order K. RHOMBOG-ANOIDEA. The Gar Pikes. 

 Family XXXII. LBPISOSTEIDiE. The Gar Pikes. 



Genus 66. LEPISOSTEUS Lacepfede. 



LepisosteuH Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 331, 1803 (gavialis==:osseus). 



Subgenus LEPISOSTEUS Raftnesque. 



155. Lepisosteus osseus (Linngsus). Long-nosed Gar; Billfish; Common Gar Pike. 



Great Lakes and rivers of United States from Vermont to the Rio Grande. 

 Esox osseus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 313, 1758; after Artedi, based on Acus 

 maxima squamosa viridis. 



Subgenus CYMNDROSTEUS Rafinesque. 



Cylindrosteus Rahnesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 72, 1820 (platostomus). 



156. Lepisosteus platostomus Ratinesque. Short-nosed Gar. 



Great Lakes and Southern and Western rivers; less abundant northward, 

 Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 72, 1820, Ohio River. 



Subgenus ATRAOTOSTEUS Rafinesque. 



Atractosteus Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 72, 1820 (ferox). 



157. Lepisosteus tristoechus (Bloch & Schneider). Alligator Gar; Great Gar; 



Manjuari. 



Rivers of the Southern States; Cuba and northern Mexico; north to St. Louis 

 and Cincinnati. • 



Esox trista'chus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 395, 1801, C'u]>a; after Man- 

 juari of Para. 



158. Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill). 



Streams of the Pacific Coast of Central America. 



Atractosteus tropicus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 172, streams near 

 Panama. 



Order L. CYCLOGANOIDEA. The Bowfins. 



Family XXXIIL AMIIDiE. The Bowfins. 



Genus 67. AMIA Linnaeus. Botvfins. 

 Amia Liumcus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, .500, 1766 {calva). 



159. Amia calva Linn.Tus. Mudfish; Dogfish; Bowfin; Grindle; "John A. Gnn- 



dle"; Lawyer; Poisson de Marais. 

 Great Lakes and sluggish waters from Minnesota to Virginia, Florida, and 



Texas; abundant. 

 Amia calva Liunicus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 500, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina. 



