REPORT ON THE FISHES 
Collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the 
University of Iowa in 1918 
BARTON WARREN EVERMANN 
Director of the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences and of 
the Steinhart Aquarium, and 
ALVIN SEALE 
Superintendent of the Steinhart Aquarium 
The fishes collected in 1918 by the Barbados-Antigua Ex- 
pedition sent out by the University of Iowa under the direction 
of Professor C. C. Nutting, were referred to the senior writer 
of this paper for study and report. A multiplicity of other 
more pressing duties delayed the fulfillment of this duty until 
recently. 
The collection contains 88 specimens representing 53 species. 
Although most of the species are common forms, the collection 
is of considerable interest in establishing new records, in show- 
ing what are the more easily obtained species, and the relative 
abundance of the more common forms. 
Following is an annotated list of the species: 
1. Myrichthys oculatus (Kaup). Snake Eel. 
Pisoodonophis oculatus Kaup, Apodes, 22, 1856, Curacao. 
Myrichthys oculatus, Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 
376, 1896; Evermann & Marsh, Fishes of Porto Rico, 74, 1902. 
One specimen (no. 97), 18.5 inches long, taken July first at 
Antigua. 
Head 4.5; eye 2.5 in snout. No caudal fin; dorsal and anal 
not continuous; pectoral extremely small. Teeth blunt. Color 
in aleohol grayish, the side with two rows of large dark spots 
each with a white center. 
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