SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS BY THE U. S. FISH COM- 

 MISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS. 



[Published by permission of Hon. Marshall McDonald, Commissioner of Fisheries.] 



No. XVIIL— LIST OF FISHES OBTAINED IN THE HARBOR OF BAHIA, BRA- 

 ZIL, AND IN ADJACENT AVATERS. 



BY 



David Starr Jordan, 



President of tit c University of Indiana. 



lu the winter and spring of 1887 and 1888, the steamer Albatross 

 made a cruise from Norfolk, Ya., to San Francisco in the service of 

 the U. S. Fish Commission. The collection made at this time in the 

 harbor of Bahia and a small collection made in deep water off" Cape San 

 Matios in northeastern Patagonia form the subject of the present paper. 



The collection from Bahia includes one hundred and twelve species. 

 As the number of specimens taken does not exceed two hundred it is 

 evident that the results which would have come from extensive col- 

 lecting might have been exceedingly valuable. 



The following is an annotated list of the species obtained : 



GALEORHINID^. 

 1. Scoliodon terrae-novse (Richardson). 

 One specimen. Scoliodon lalandi is the same species. 



SPHYRN1D.E. 

 2. Sphyrna tiburo (L). 



One specimen. 



RHINOBATID^. 



3. Rhinobatus electriciis (Bloch & Schneider). 



One specimen. Cartilages very narrow; snout long; upper part.s 

 with bluish white spots of the size of the pupil. This is Bhinobatus 

 undidattis Olfers, but the misleading name, eleciricns, is much older. • 



AiiTOBATID^. 



4. Stoasodon nariiiari (Enphrasen) 



One head preserved. 



ALBOLID^. 

 5. Albula vulpes (L). 



Common. 



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