CHECK-LIST OF THE FISHES AND FISH-UKE VERTEBRATES 

 OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



Class I. LEPTOCARDII. The Lancelets. 



Order A. AMPHIOXI. The Cirrostomes. 



Family I. BRANCHIOSTOMATIDiE. The Lancelets. 



Genus 1. BRANCHIOSTOMA Costa. 



Brancliiostoma Costa, Ceuui Zoologici NapoL, 49, \S'ii:{hihricum=^lanc,eolatu,m). 



1. Branchiostomalanceolatum (Pallas). European Lancelet; Amphioxus. 



Meditevrauean; southern England; Scandinavia; Chesapeake Bay. 

 LimaxlanceoJatas Pallas, Spicilegia Zool., x, 19, 1774, Cornwall. 



2. Branchiostoma caribaeum Suudevall. West Indian Lancelet. 



Atlantic coast of America from Beaufort, N. C, to the mouth of the La Plata; 



abundant off the Carolina coast and in localities in Florida (Port Tampa), 



Jamaica, Brazil, etc. 

 Branchiostoma carihceum Sundevall, Olfers, Vet. Akad. Forhandl. 1853, 12, St. 



Thomas; Rio Janeiro. 



3. Branchiostoma californiense Gill. California Lancelet. 



Pacific coast of Xorth America from San Diego Bay southward. 

 Branchiostoma californiensis Gill, in Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins 

 Univ., V, 241, 1893, San Diego, California. 



Genus 2. ASYMMETEON Andrews. 



Asymmetron Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkins Univ., v, 2.37, 1893 

 {lucaijanum). 



4. Asymmetron Iticayanum Andrews. Bahama Lancelet. 



Bemini and Nassau, Bahamas. 



Asymmetron htcai/annm Andrews, Studies Biol. Lab. Johns Hopkius Univ., v, 

 237, 1893, Bernini, Bahama Islands. 



Class II. MARSIPOBRANCHII. The Lampreys. 

 Order B. HYPEROTRETI. The Hagfishes. 

 Family II. HEPTATREMIDiE. The Borers. 



Genus 3. POLISTOTREMA Gill. 



Polistotrema Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 30 (dombei/). 



5. Polistotrema stouti (Lockington). California Magfish; Lamperina. 



Coast of California; Monterey. 



Bdellostoma stouti Lockington, Amer. Nat. 1878, 793, Eel River, California. 



Family III. MYXINIDiE. The Hagfishes. 



Genus 4. MYXINE Linneeus. 



Myxine Linnaeus, Systema Natura?, ed. x, 650, 1758 (glutinosa). 



6. Myxine glutinosa Linna'us. Eagfish; Borer. 



North Atlantic, on both coasts. Not abundant in America ; south to Delaware. 

 Myxine, glutinosa LinuiPus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 650, 1758, Atlantic Ocean. 



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