XLII.-LIST OF THE FISHES DISTRIBUTED BY THE UNITED 

 STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



By Takletox H. Bean, M. D. 



1 beg- leave to present lierewitk a list of the fishes which receive atten- 

 tiou from the United States Fish Comuiissiou, giving the oldest available 

 specific name of each species as far as this can be determined at present. 

 The name of the striped bass, Roccus lineatus, is in doubt; it seemi^ pro- 

 bable that we must use Mitchill's name (sfriatus) instead of lineatns, 

 the specific name lineatns being, apparently, not available until we reach 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes in 1S?8. The synonymy of species which have 

 been introduced from Europe is borrowed, for the most part, from Giin- 

 ther's catalogue. For American authors the references have all been 

 verified. No attempt was made to furnish a comjilete synonymy, only 

 the principal works having been consulted. The distribution of the 

 species is briefly indicated. 



1. Solea vulgaris Quensel. Sole. 



Pleuronecies solea Linn6, Byst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 457. 



Solea vulgaris Quensel, Vet. Akad. Handl., 1806, p. 467; GDnther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., IV, 1862, p. 463. 

 Coasts of Europe. Attempts wore made to introduce it iuto America by the 



U. S. Fisli Commissioner iu 1878, 1879, and 1880. 



2. Rhombus maximus (L.) Cuv. Turbot. 



Pleuronectis maximns LiNNii;, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 4.")9. 



Bhombus maximus Cuv., Regno Anim., II, 1817, 222; Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., IV, 1862, p. 407. 

 Coasts of Europe, Account of introduction. Eeport, Part IX, LIV. 



3. Gadus morrhua L. Cod. 



Gadus oallarias Linn6, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 436 (young); GOnther, Cat. Fish. 



Brit. Mus., IV, 1852, p. 329; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus., 



1883, p. 804. 

 Gadus morrhua L., Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 436; Guntuer, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 



IV, 1862, p. 328; and of recent American writers generally. 

 Morrhua Americana Stoker, Rep. Fish. Mass., 1839, p. 120; De Kay, Nat. Hist. N. 



Y., I, 1842, p. 274, pi. XLIV, fig. 140. 

 North Atlantic and Pacific ; on the coast of the UniteA States extending south- 

 ward to Virginia; in the Pacific, from Pugot Sound northward to the ice-line 

 in Bering Sea and westward to the Okhotsk. 

 4 f, :^.nber scombrus L. Mackerel. 



.•^comber scomber L., Syst. Nat., I, 17uv>, p. 492; Schn. cx Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 



p. 24; GiiNTiiER, Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mas., II, 1860, p. 357. 

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