PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 239 



A PREI.IIVIIIVABY CATAr.OGUE OF THE FIv«$IIES OF AI^ASKAIV AIVD 



AOJACEIVT '^VATERS. 



By TAKILETOM M. BEAIV. 



Tbe followiug is a list of the fishes of Alaska which have been recorded 

 in the principal works relating to the subject. One hundred and sixteen 

 species are named, all of which are in the collection of the United States 

 National Museum except Pleuroncctes FranJcUnii, Muncnoides doUchogas- 

 ter, Scbastichthys ruber (represented by numerous exa.mi)les from Cali- 

 fornia and Paget Sound), Psycliroluies paradoxus, Esox lucius, Spratel- 

 loidcs bryoporns, and Raia bat is of Pallas. TLe catalogue is, therefore, 

 Xjractically a record of what the Museum has from the Territory. The 

 numbers i)receding the localities of the species refer to the Museum reg- 

 ister of fishes. 



The earlier collections here mentioned were made principally by Messrs. 

 Bannister, Bischoff, Dall, Elliott, Kennicott, and Turner. More recent 

 contributions have been received from Commander L. A. Beardslee, U. 

 S. N., at Sitka, Capt. C. L. Hooper, United States Revenue Marine, in 

 the Arctic, and Mr. William J. Fisher, United States Coast Survey ob- 

 server, at Kodiak. As will be seen by referring to the list, very large 

 additions were made during the summer of 1880 by Mr. William H. 

 Dall, commanding the United States Coast Survey schooner Yukon, 

 his assistants, and the writer. 



The species named are almost wholly shore species, or such as are 

 found in comparatively shallow water; the deep-water fishes of Alaska 

 are still undiscovered, instruments of deep-sea research, except the 

 dredge, not having been employed there. 



In the appendix will be found the names of 99 species which have been 

 recorded from waters adjacent to Alaska, many of which will doubtless 

 be found within the limits of the Territory. 



For the sake of convenience, the numbers preceding the names of 

 fishes in the faunal tables are the same as in the catalogue. 



It is my intention to prepare a detailed account of the fishes here 

 recorded, and it is expected that at least the new species will be repre- 

 sented by illustrations. 



GASTEROSTEID^. 



1. Gasterosteus cataphractus (Pall.) Tilesius. 



Kamtchatka (Pallas) ; San Francisco and Paget Sound (Jordan & 

 Gilbert). 



20489. Sitka. J. A. Fitzgerald. 



28053. Port Mulgrave, Yakutat Bay, June 24, 1880. Dall & Bean. 

 28077. Eefuge Cove, Cook's Inlet, July 6, 1880. Dall & Bean. 

 27994. Chugachik Bay, Cook's Inlet, July I, 1880. Dall & Bean. 



