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7. Entosphenus tridentatus (lairdiicr. 

 Three-toothed Lamprey. 



Anadromous. Parasitic: attaching itself to fishes. 



British Columbia: Pacific coast of North America, ranging- from the Aleutian Ishxnds to 

 southern California. 



8. Lampetra aurea Bean. 



Brook Lamprey. 



Mostly abounding in streams. Parasitic: attaching itself to fishes. 



Yukon River, and presumably Great Slave Lake (Richard.son, 1836, as Petromi/ zun jluvialis) ■*■ 

 streams of Alaska and Kamchatka. 



9. Lampetra cibaria Girard. 



Bi'ouk Lamprey. 



Fluviatile. Parasitic: attaching itself to fishes. 



Ranges from British Columbia southward to the Sacramento River. California. 



10. Lampetra wilderi Gage. 



Small Black Lamprey: Brook Lamprey. 



Mostly abounding in rivers, and ascending small streams to spawn. Parasitic: attaching 



itself to fishes. 

 State of New York and Great Lakes region westward, and embracing the Ohio valley to the 



Mississippi valley: perhaps to be found in Ontario and Manitoba. f 



11. Notorhynchus maculatus Ay res. 

 Cow Shark. 



Marine. 



Doubtless occurs in British Columbian waters as it is known to range from the coast of the 



State of Wa.shington to California, and is "rather common northward, especially in 



Humboldt Bay" (.Jordan and Evermann). 



12. Hexanchus corinus .Jordan and Gilbert. 

 Shovel-nosed Shark. 



Marine. 



\'ancouver Island and Puget Sound, southward to Bay of Monterey, California. 



13. Catulus brunneus Gilbert. 

 Cat Shark: Swell Shark. 

 Marine. 



Specimen (very young) in the Provincial Museum, Victoria, from Nanaimo, Vancouver Island: 

 coast of California.! 



*'P. flurktlis, Richard.son, mentioned only as a small lamprey attached to an Inconnu in Great Slave Lake." 

 Jordan and Evennann. "The proper identification of the specimen is uncertain; it is probalily the same as L. 

 aurea." Evennann and Goldsborough. 



■j-'I am not positive as to the occurrence of this species in our waters, though I have often taken a small 

 Lamprey in the northern and western streams of Ontario and in the rivers of Manitoba which 1 believe to be (he 

 Brook Lamprey." Nash. 



{At the time of the publication of Jordan and Evemiann's 'Fishes of North and Middle America' (1.S96) only 

 one specimen of this species was known, "a female with mature eggs." 



