CHFX'K-LIST OP NORTH AMERICAN FISHES. 269 



Order Q. APODES. The Eels. 



Suborder ENCHELYCEPHALI. The Eels. 



Family XLIII. ANGUILLIDiE. The True Eels. 



Genas 151. ANGUILLA Shaw. Eels. 



Annuilla Shaw, General Zoology, iv, 15, 1804 (angailla). 



538. Anguilla chrysypa Rafinesciiie. American Eel; Fresh-iraier Eel. 



Atlantic Coast of the IJuitod States; very abundant from Maine to Mexico, 

 ascending all rivers south of Canada and east of the Rocky Mountains 

 and resident throughout the Mississippi Valley ; common in the West 

 Indies. 

 Amjuilla chri/si/pa R(it\nesqiie, Auier. Month. Mag. and Crit. Rev. 1817, 120, 

 Lake George, Hudson River, and Lake Champlain. 



Family XLIV. SIMENCHELYIDiE. The Snub-nosed Eels. 



Genus 153. SIMENCHELYS Gill. 

 Simenchelys Gill, in Goode & T.eau, Hull. Essex lust., 27, 1879 (parasiticus). 



589. Simenchelys parasiticus Gill. 



Orfshoro banks, iir deep water, soutli of Newfouiidlaud; also recorded from 



the Azores. 

 Simenchelyn parasiticits Gill, in (roole & Bean, Bull. P^ssex lust., 27, 1879, 



Newfoundland Banks. 



Family XLV. ILYOPHIDiE. The Ooze Eels. 



Genus 153. ILYOPHIS Gilbert. 



Ihjopliis Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 351 (hrunneus). 



590. Ilyophis brimneus Gilbert. 



One specimen from Chatham Island, Galapagos Archipelago, in 631 fathoms. 



Ilyophis brunneus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1891, 3.52, Chatham Island; 



Galapagos Archipelago, at Albatross Station 2808, in 634 fathoms. 



Family XL VI. SYNAPHOBRANCHIDiE. 



Genus 154. SYNAPHOBRANCHITS Johnson. 



Synaphobranchus Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1862, 169 {kaupti). 



591. Synaphobranchus pinnatus (Gronow). 



North Atlantic and western Pacific; common about the Madeiras, Canaries, 



etc., and also about the banks of Newfoundland. 

 Murcena pinnata Gronow, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 19, 1854, locality unknown. 



Genus 155. HISTIOBRANCHTJS Gill. 



Histiobranchus Gill, Proc. T^ S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 255 (infernalis). 



592. Histiobranchus bathybius ((Jiinther). 



Northern and western Pacific in deep water; Bering Strait; oK Japan and 



oti^ Cape of Good Hope; one specimen obtained by Dr. Gilbert in Bering 



Sea in 1890. 

 Synaphobranchus bathybius Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xx. 1877, 445, 



and in Voy. Challenger, 251, pi. 62, fig. /), 1887, off Yedo ; North Pacific; 



also between Cape of (Jood Hope andlverguelen Island. 



593. Histiobranchus infernalis (iill. 



Gulf Stream. 



Histiobranchus infernalis Gill, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 255, Gulf Stream, 

 at Albatross Station 2037, 38"^ .30' N., 69" W., in 1,731 fathoms. 



