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Genus 183. ftUASSIREMUS Jordan & Davis. 



Qaassiremas Jordan &. Davis, Apodal Fishes, 622, 1892 (evionthas). 



638 Quassiremus nothochir (Gilbert). 



Sau Josef Island, Gulf of California. 



Ophichthys nothochir Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 58, San Josef Island, 

 Gulf of California. 



639. Quassiremus evionthas (Jordan & Bollman). 



Hood Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Ophichthus evionthas Jordan & Bollman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 154, Hood 

 Island, Galapagos Archipelago. 



Genus 184. OPHICHTHUS Thunberg & Ahl. 



Ophichthus Thunberg & Ahl, De Muraena et Ophichtho, 1789 {aphis). 



Subgenus CRYPTOPTERUS Kaup. 



Cryptopterns Kaup, Aale Hamburg, 1859 (puncticeps). 



640. Ophichthus puncticeps (Kaxip). 



Caribbean Sea at Puerto Cabello, near Aspinwall. 



Cryptopterm puncticeps Kaup, Aale Hamb. Mus., ii, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1859, Puerto 

 Cabello, Caribbean Sea. 



Subarenus OPHICHTHUS Thunberg & Ahl. 



641. Ophichthus havannensis (Bloch & Schueider). 



West Indies; apparently not common. 



Miira'na havannensis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 491, 1801, Havana; after 

 Parra. 



642. Ophichthus retropinnis (Eigenmaun). 



Snapper Banks, off Peusacola, Florida. 



Ophichthys retropinnis Eigenmann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, 116, Snapper 

 Banks, off Peusacola. 



Subgenus MUR.EXOPSIS Kaup. 



Munenopsis Kaup, Apodes, 11, 1856 {ocellatus). 



643. Ophichthus guttifer (Bean & Dresel). 



Snapper Banks, oft' Peusacola, Florida. 



Ophichthys gnttifer Bean & Dresel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, 1884, 100, Snapper 

 Banks, off Pensacola, Florida. 



644. Ophichthus ocellatus (LeSueur). 



West Indies, south to Brazil and north to Pensacola. 



Murwnophis ocellatus LeSueur, Jour. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 108, i)l. 4, 

 fig. 3, South America. 



645. Ophichthus triserialis (Kaup). 



Pacific Coast of Tropical America, rather common, from Lower California 



to the Galapagos. 

 Murcenopsis triserialis Kaup, Apodes, 12, 1856, Pacific. 



Subgenus SCTTALOPHIS Kaup. 



Scytalophis Kaup, Ajiodes, 13, 1856 {magnioculis) . 



646. Ophichthus gomesii (Castelnau). Sea Serpent; Sea Eel; Whipsnake Eel. 



South Carolina to Rio .Janeiro; generally common, especially about the 



Florichi Keys and Cuba. 

 Ophisurus (jomesii Castelnau, Anim. Am. Sud, 84, pi. 44, fig. 2, 1855, Rio Janeiro. 



647. Ophichthus zophochir (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Pacific Coast of Mexico, Guaymas to Acapulco. 



Ophichthys zophochir Jordan &, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1881, 347, Maz- 

 atlan, Mexico. 



