XLII.-LIST OF THE FISHES DISTRIBUTED BY THE UNITED 

 STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



By TaIsLKTOX H. BeaN, M. D. 



1 bej? leave to ])r('seiit lieiewitb a list of the fishes which receive atten- 

 tion froui the United States Fish Comuiission, giving the oldest available 

 specific name of each species as far as this can be determined at present. 

 The name of the striped bass, Roccns Uneatus, is in doubt; it seems pro- 

 bable that we must use Mitchill's name {striatus) instead of Uneatus, 

 the specific name Uneatus being, apparently, not available until we reach 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes in 1828. The synonymy of species which have 

 been introduced from Europe is borrowed, for the most part, from Giin- 

 ther's catalogue. For American authors the references have all been 

 verified. Ko attempt was made to furnish a complete synonymy, only 

 the principal works having beeu consulted. The distribution of the 

 species is briefly iudicateu. 



1. Solea vulgaris Quenstl. Sole. 



rieuronecies solea LiNNlc, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 457. 



Solea vulgaris Qup:nsel, Vet. Akad. llaudl., 1806, p. 467; GDnther, Cat. Fisli. 



Brit. Mu8., IV, 1862, p. 463. 

 Coasts of Europe. Attempts woro made to introduce it iuto America by the 



U. S. Fisli Coramiseiouer in 1878, 1879, and 1880. 



2. Rhombus maximus (L.) Cut. Tuubot. 



Pleuroneetts maximus Linn6, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 459. 



Bhomlms maximus Cuv., Rfegno Anim., II, 1817, 222; GDnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mu8., IV, 1862, p. 407. 

 Coants of Europe, Account of introduction. Report, Part IX, LIV. 



3. Gadus morrhua L. Cod. 



Gadus callarias Linn]5, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 436 (young); GOnther, Cat. Fish 



Brit. Mus., IV, 1832, p. 329; Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



1883, p. 804. 

 Gadus morrhua L., Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 436; Gunther, Cat. Fisli. Brit. Mus 



IV, 1862, p. 328; and of recent American writers generally. 

 Morrhua Americana Storer, Rep. Fish. Mass., 1839, p. 120; De Kay, Nat. Hist. N 



Y., I, 1842, p. 274, pi. XLIV, fig. 140. 

 North Atlantic and Pacific ; on the coast of the Unite* States extending south 

 ward to Virginia; in the Pacific, from Puget Sound northward to the ice-lino 

 in Berinrr Sea and Avest^^^rd to the Okhotsk. 

 4 Scomber scombrus L. Mackerel. 



Scomber scomber L., Syst. Nat. x • 1766, p. 492 ; Schn. ex Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 



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p. 24; GtJNTHER, Cat., Fisli, i>.^it- M^s., II, I860, p. 357. 



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