6l MoivI^USCA OF THE Gui.F OF MEXICO 29 



New Orleans pumping station No. 7; Kuapp's wells, Ter- 

 rebonne Parish, No. i at 1600-1700, 2250-2450, No. 2 at 

 at 1434, 1780-1790, 179T-1842, No. 3 ati7oo-i7i2 feet. 



Subgenus PSEUDAMUSIUM Adams 

 strigillatum Dall, Bull. 37, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 34, pi. 42, f. 2, '89. 

 Distribution. — Fernandina to Cuba, Abyssal, 294 to iiSi fms. 

 Gulf of Mexico : western Fla. region. 

 vitreum Gmelin 



Peden vitreus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 6, 1792 ; Dall, Bull. 37, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 34, pi. 64, fig. 141, 1889. 

 Distribution. — Arctic Ocean to Patagonia, 50 to 800 fms. 

 West Florida, deep water. 



Genus AiViUSJUIVl Bolten 

 papyraceum Gabb 



Plcuronectia papyracea Gabb, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, vol. 



15, p. 257, 1873. 

 mortoni V>2i\\, Bull. 37, U. vS. Nat. Mus., p. 34, 1889. Not 



Peden /fiorfofii Kavenel 1844. 

 papj'race2ifnDal\, Trans. Wagner Inst. Sci., 3, pt. 4, pp. 718, 

 757. ^898 , Idem, pt. 6, p. 15S6, 1903 ; Maury, Bull. Amer. 

 Pal., No. 29, p. 190, pi. 26, fig. 22, 1917. 

 Distribution. — Antilles and Gulf of Mexico. Miocene, Santo 

 Domingo. Living in deep and shallow water, west Florida. 

 mortoni Ravenel 



Pedefi mortoni Ravenel, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2, p. 

 96, 1844 ; Tuome}^ and Holmes, Pleio. Foss. S. Car., p. 

 27, pi. 10, f. 1,2, '55 ; Dall, Trans. Wagner Inst., 3, pt. 



4. P- 757. '98. 



Distribution. — Miocene : Md., Car. and Fla. Pliocene : Ca- 

 loosahatchie and Shell Creek, Fla. 

 dalli Smith, Chall. Rept. Lam., p. 308, pi. 22, fig. 7 a-<r, '86; 

 Dall, B. M. C. Z., 12, p. 209, pi. 4, f. I, '86 ; Bull. 37, U. 



5. Nat. Nus., p. 32, pi. 4, f. I, pi. 40, f. 6, '89. 

 Distribution. — Bermuda to Barbados, abyssal, 218 to 1591 fms. 



Gulf of Mexico, western Fla. region, 860 fms. 



