PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



I-.imilv CAKANGID^. 



Ol.IGOPLlTES Gill. 



T)-pe: Chorinemus occideiitalis (iiinther 

 =Scomber satirus Bloch & Schneider. 



Range: Tropical seas of America; one 

 species in fresh water. 



Oligof>lH('s pnloDiefa (Ciivier & Valen- 

 ciennes) J. & K., 899. 



Habitat: Lake Yzabal to Lake Mara- 

 caibo. 



Family GOBIIDyE. 



Philypnus Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Type: Platycephalus doniiitator Bloch 



^Gobiotnorus dormitor Lacepede. 

 Range : Both slopes of middle America. 

 . Philvpiius donnUor (Lacepede), 



J. & E., 2195. 



Platycephalus dormitator Bloch; Ba- 



trachus guavina Bloch & Schneider; 



Eleotris longiceps Giinther; Eleotris 



dorniitatrix Cuvier. 

 Habitat : Eastern slope of Mexico, Cen- 

 tral America (Lake Nicaragua) to 

 Surinam ; entering salt water. 

 !. Philypnus maculatus (Giinther), 



J. & E., 2195. 

 Philypnus lateralis Gill. 

 Habitat: Pacific slope from Sonora to 

 Panama and Ecuador; entering salt 

 water. 



DORMIT.-VTOR Gill. 



Prochilus Cuvier. 



Type : Dormitator gundlachi Poey. 

 Range that of the single species. 

 .\ I . Dormitator maculatus ( Bloch) ,^ 



J. & E., 2196. 

 Eleotris mugiloides, sinia and ? gran- 

 disquama Cuvier & Valenciennes; 

 Eleotris latifrons Richardson ; Eleo- 

 tris sovinolentus Girard; Eleotris 

 omocyaneus Poey ; Dormitator mi- 

 crophthalmus Gill ; Dormitator gund- 

 lachi Poey ; Dormitator lineatus 

 Gill. 



' The Atlantic and Pacific slope forms have at limes 

 heen considered distinct. 



Habitat: Atlantic slope from South 

 Carolina to Para ; Pacific slope from 

 Cape San Lucas to Panama; enter- 

 ing fresh and salt water. 



Guavina Bleeker. 

 T\'pe : Eleotris guavina Cuvier & Va- 

 lenciennes. 

 Range: Cuba to Rio Grande do Sul. 

 .\i. Guavina guavina (Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes), J. & E., 2198. 



Habitat: Cuba to Rio Grande do Sul; 

 entering rivers and salt water. 

 \2. Guavina brasiliensis {Sauvsige). (Prob- 

 ably identical with guavina.) 

 Habitat : Bahia. 



Eleotris Bloch & Schneider. 

 Type : Gobius pisotiis Gmelin. 

 Culius Bleeker. 



Range : Both slopes of middle America, 

 West Indies, south to Rio de Janeiro. 



1. EJeotris amblyopsis Cope, J. & E., 2199. 



Habitat: Surinam. 



2. EAcotris pisonis (Gmelin), J. & E., 2200. 



Gobius aiuorca Walbaum; Eleotris gy- 

 rinus Cuvier & Valenciennes; Eleo- 

 tris belisianus Sauvage. 

 Habitat: Florida to southern Brazil. 

 .\3. Eleotris pcrniger (Cope) , J. & E., 2201. 



Habitat: Jamaica to Rio de Janeiro. 

 4. Eleotris picta Kncr & Stcindachner, 



J. & E., 2201. 

 Culius ccquidcns Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Habitat: Pacific slope, Sonora to Ec- 

 uador. 



