226 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Genus 61. HYDROLAGUS Gill. 



Hiidrolaijiis Ciill, I'roc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Thila. 18G2, 331 (colUci). 



146. Hydrolagiis colliei (Lay & Bennett). Ixai-fisli : Elcphant-Jish. 



Pacilic Coant from Monterey northward to Alaska. 



Chinmra collici Lay & Bennett, Beechey's Voy., Zool., 71, 1849, North Pacific. 



Genus 62. HAHRIOTTA Goode & Bean. 



Harriotta Goode &, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1894 (.Tan. 26, 189.5), \ll {ral- 

 eighana). 



147. Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean. 



Deep water off the North Atlantic Coast of the United States. 

 Harriotia raleiglKuia Goode A Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1894 (Jan. 26, 1895), 

 iT2, pi. 19, Gulf Stream at 39^ N., 70^ W. 



Subclass TELEOSTOMI. The True Pishes. 



Series GANOID EI. The Ganoid Fishes. 



Superorder CHONDROGANOIDEA. The Cartilaginous Ganoids. 



Order I. SELACHOSTOMI. The Paddle-fishes. 



Pamily XXX. POLYODONTIDiE. The Paddle-fishes. 



Genus 63. POLYODON Lacepede. 



Pohjodon Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss,, i, 402, 1798 (feuille). 



148. Polyodon spathula (Walbanm). Faddle-fish ; SjHwn-hUl Cat; DiiclC'lill Cat; 



,S]>ade-Jish. 

 Mississippi Valley and rivers of the Sonthern States; Lake Erie. 

 Squalus sjjathula Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, 522, 1792, no locality given. 



Order J. CHONDROSTEI. The Sturgeons. 

 Family XXXI. ACIPENSERIDiE. The Sturgeons. 



Genus 64. ACIPENSER Linnaeus. Sturgeons. 



Ac'q)e7iscr (Artedi) Liuu;eus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 237, 1758 (afttrio). 



149. Acipenser transmontanus Richardson. JVIiite Sturgeon; Oregon Sturgeon; 



Sacramento Sturgeon. 

 Pacific Coast, from Alaska south to ^Monterey; ascending the Sacramento, 



Columbia, and l-'raser rivers in large numbers in spring. 

 Acipenner truiismontanus Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., iii, 278, 1836, Fort 



Vancouver. 



150. Acipenser medirostris Ayres. Green Sturgeon. 



Pacific Coast; ascending the rivers from San Francisco northward. 

 Acipenser medirostris Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., i, 1854, 15, San Francisco. 



151. Acipenser sturio Linnaeus. Common Sturgeon. 



Atlantic coasts; ascending rivers of northern Europe and the United States. 

 Avijyenser sturio Linntcus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 237, 1758, seas of Europe. 



152. Acipenser rubicundus LeSnenr. Lake Sturgeon; Ohio Sturgeon; Stone Stur- 



geon; Rock Sturgeon ; lied Sturgeon. 

 Upper MissiHsij)pi Valley, Great Lakes, and northward. 

 Acipenxer ruhieundus LeSueur. 'I'rans. Anier. Phil, boc, i, 1818, 388, Lakes 



Ontario, Erie, and all the upper lakea. 



