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Family CCXII. PERISTEDIIDiB. The Deep-water Gurnards. 



Genus 947. PERISTEDION Lacepede. 



Peristidion Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 368, 1802 {maUrmat = cataphracta). 



2848. Peristedion miniatum Goode. 



Gulf Stream. 



Peristedion miniatum Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 349, Gulf Stream, 

 off Rhode Island. 



2849. Peristedion longispatha Goode & Bean. 



West Indies, off Cuba and Barbados. 



Perisiedium loiiqispatha Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xii, No. .5, 



166, 1886, off Havana. 



2850. Peristedion gracile Goode & Bean. 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Peristedion (jracilc Goode & Bean, Ocean. Icbth., 473, 1896, Gulf of Mexico. 



2851. Peristedion platycephalum Goode & Bean. 



West Indies: Barbados. 



Peristedion plati/cephahim Goode &. Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xii, No. 5, 



167, 1886, off Barbados. 



Genus 948. VTJLSICULUS * Jordan & Evermann. 



Fulsicnhis Jordan & Evermann, new genus (imberhis). 



2852. Vulsiculus imberbis (Poey). 



Gulf of Mexico. 



Prionotus imherbe Poey, Memorias, ii, 367, 1861, Cuba. 



Family CCXIII. CEPHALACANTHIDiE. The Flying-Fish. 



Genus 949. CEPHALACANTHTJS Laedpede. 



Ceplialacanthns Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 223, 1802 {splnarella). 



2853. Cephalacanthus volitans (Linnreus). Fhjing-rohin ; Mucielago ; Yotador ; 



Baffish. 

 Atlantic Ocean, on both coasts; also Gulf coasts. 

 Trigla volitans Linnieus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, 302, 1758; after Artedi. 



Suborder DISCOCEPHALI. 

 Family CCXIV. ECHENEIDIDiE. The Remoras. 



Genus 950. PHTHEIEICHTHYS Gill. 



Phtheirichthijs Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1862, 239 {lineata). 



2854. Phtheirichthys lineatus (Menzies). 



Tropical seas, ranging north to South Carolina and Pensacola. 

 Echeneis lineata Menzies, Trans. Liun. Soc. Lond. 1791, i, 187, pi. 17, fig. 1, 

 Pacific Ocean, between the Tropics. 



Genus 951. ECHENEIS (Artedi) Linnaeus. 

 Echeneis (Artedi) Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 260, 1758 {naucrates). 



2855. Echeneis naucrates LinnaMis. Shark-suclcer ; Pega; Pegador ; Sucking-fish. 



Warm seas, universally distributed; common north to Cape Cod and San 



Francisco. 

 Echeneis neucrates (misprint for naucrates) LinniBUs, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 261, 



1758, Pelago ludico. 



2856. Echeneis naucrateoides Zuieuw. 



Cape Cod to West Indies; common on our South Atlantic Coast. 



Echeneis naucrateoides Zuieuw, Nova Acta Ac. Sci. Imp. PetropoL, iv, 279. 



Distinguished by its very minute barbel, easily overlooked. 



