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153. Acipenser brevirostris LeSuenr. Short-nosed Sturgeon. 



Cape Cod to Florida; rare northward. 



Acipenser hrevirostrum LeSueur, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, i, 1818, 390, Delaware 

 River. 



Genus 65. SCAPHIRHYNCHUS Heckel. Shovel-nose Sturgeons. 



Scaphirhynchusliecktil, Ann. Wiener Mus. Naturgesch., i, 1835, 71 (rajinesquei=^ 

 platorhynchus). 



154. Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus (Rafinesque). Shorel-nose Sturgeon; White 



Sturgeon. 

 Mississippi Valley, and streams of Western and Southern States; common. 

 Acipenser platorhynchus Ratinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 80, 1820, Ohio River. 



Subclass HOLOSTEI. The Bony Ganoids. 



Order K. RHOMBOGANOIDEA. The G-ar Pikes. 



Family XXXII. LEPISOSTEIDiE. The Gar Pikes. 



Genus 66. LEPISOSTEUS Lacepede. 

 Lepisosteus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 331, 1803 (gaviaUs^osseus). 



Subgenus LEPISOSTEUS Raflnesque. 



155. Lepisosteus osseus (Linnreus). Long-nosed Gar; Billfish; Common Gar Pike. 



Great Lakes and rivers of United States from Vermont to the Rio Grande. 

 Usox osseus Linnjens, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 313, 1758; after Artedi, based on Acus 

 maxima squamosa viridis. 



Subgenus OYiJNUKOSTKUS Eafliiesque. 



Cylindrosteus Ratinesque, Iclith. Ohiensis, 72, 1820 {platostomus) . 



156. Lepisosteus platostomus Rafinesque. Short-nosed Gar. 



Great Lakes and Southern and Western rivers; less abundant northward. 

 Lepisosteus platostomus Ratinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 72, 1820, Ohio River. 



Subgenus ATRACTOSTEUS Baflnesque. 



Atractosteus Rafinesque, Ichth. Ohiensis, 72, 1820 (ferox). 



157. Lepisosteus tristcechus (Bloch & Schneider). Alligator Gar; Great Gar; 



Manjuari. 



Rivers of the Southern States; Cuba and northern Mexico; north to St. Louis 

 and Cincinnati. 



Esox trista'chtis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 395, 1801, Cuba; after Man- 

 juari of Para. 



158. Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill). 



Streams of the Pacific Coast of Central America. 



Atractosteus tropicus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 172, streams near 

 Panama. 



Order L. CYCLOGANOIDEA. The Bowfins. 



Family XXXIII. AMIIDiB. The Bowfins. 



Genus 67. AMIA Linnaeus. Boivfins. 

 Amia Liun;eus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 500, 1766 (calva). 



159. Amia calva Linntcus. Mudfish; Dogfish; Bowfin; Grindle; "John A. Grin- 



die"; Lawyer; Poisson de Marais. 

 Great Lakes and sluggish waters from Minnesota to Virginia, Florida, and 



Texas; nbundant. 

 Amia calva Liumcus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 500, 1766, Charleston, South Carolina. 



