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  -NOTES 
  ON 
  THE 
  EXTENSION 
  OF 
  THE 
  RECORDED 
  RANGE 
  OF 
  

   CERTAIN 
  FISHES 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STxVTES 
  COASTS. 
  

  

  By 
  Hugh 
  M. 
  Smith 
  and 
  William 
  C. 
  Kendall. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  for 
  1804 
  notes 
  

   were 
  presented 
  on 
  nine 
  marine 
  and 
  fresh- 
  water 
  fishes, 
  the 
  extension 
  of 
  

   whose 
  known 
  distribution 
  on 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  coast 
  ^^•e 
  were 
  able 
  to 
  record. 
  

   The 
  present 
  paper, 
  which 
  is 
  based 
  on 
  collections 
  and 
  observations 
  

   by 
  assistants 
  of 
  the 
  Fish 
  Commission, 
  is 
  intended 
  to 
  embody 
  similar 
  

   information 
  for 
  nineteen 
  additional 
  fishes 
  inhabiting 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  and 
  

   Pacific 
  coasts 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  Tetronarce 
  occidentalis 
  Storer, 
  Torpedo; 
  Crampjish. 
  

  

  This 
  large 
  and 
  curious 
  electric 
  ray 
  has 
  an 
  assigned 
  range 
  on 
  the 
  

   eastern 
  coast 
  of 
  North 
  America 
  from 
  Cape 
  Cod 
  to 
  Cuba. 
  Drs. 
  Coode 
  

   and 
  Bean 
  have 
  noted' 
  its 
  occurrence 
  near 
  Thatcher 
  Island, 
  off 
  Cai^e 
  

   Ann, 
  Massachusetts, 
  and 
  at 
  Lanesville, 
  Mass. 
  On 
  several 
  occasions 
  

   it 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  iarther 
  north 
  and 
  east 
  than 
  ( 
  'ape 
  Ann. 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  S. 
  

   Couley, 
  first 
  mate 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  schooner 
  

   Grampus, 
  states 
  that 
  about 
  1880, 
  while 
  on 
  a 
  mackerel 
  vessel 
  off 
  Seguiu, 
  

   on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Maine, 
  in 
  longitude 
  69° 
  40' 
  W., 
  he 
  saw 
  a 
  torpedo 
  caught 
  

   in 
  a 
  purse 
  seine 
  Avith 
  mackerel. 
  The 
  fish 
  was 
  about 
  .'U 
  feet 
  long, 
  and 
  

   severely 
  shocked 
  a 
  fisherman 
  who 
  attempted 
  to 
  handle 
  it. 
  Mr. 
  CI. 
  F. 
  O. 
  

   Hanson, 
  second 
  mate 
  on 
  the 
  Grampus, 
  says 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1890, 
  

   while 
  on 
  a 
  vessel 
  on 
  La 
  Have 
  Bank, 
  off 
  Nova 
  Scotia, 
  in 
  longitude 
  about 
  

   64° 
  W., 
  a 
  torpedo 
  was 
  taken 
  on 
  a 
  line 
  set 
  for 
  cod. 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  Pye, 
  

   of 
  Wood 
  Island, 
  Maine, 
  states 
  that 
  in 
  1894 
  he 
  caught 
  a 
  torpedo 
  in 
  his 
  

   tra]), 
  and 
  that 
  not 
  infrequently 
  torpedoes 
  have 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  traps 
  at 
  

   Bald 
  Head 
  and 
  vicinity. 
  

  

  Myxine 
  glutinosa 
  Linnreus. 
  Hagfish 
  ; 
  Slime 
  Eel. 
  

  

  This 
  fish-like 
  vertebrate 
  inhabits 
  the 
  North 
  Atlantic 
  Ocean, 
  and 
  is 
  

   found 
  on 
  the 
  northern 
  coast 
  of 
  both 
  Europe 
  and 
  America. 
  On 
  the 
  

   shores 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  the 
  recorded 
  southern 
  limit 
  of 
  its 
  range 
  is 
  

   Cape 
  Cod, 
  Massachusetts, 
  although 
  Dr. 
  (loode 
  states 
  that 
  in 
  deep 
  water 
  

   it 
  may 
  occur 
  even 
  farther 
  south. 
  During 
  the 
  tilefish 
  investigations 
  of 
  

   the 
  Grampus 
  in 
  1892 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  hagfish 
  was 
  taken 
  off 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  

   Delaware 
  in 
  September. 
  The 
  fish 
  was 
  caught 
  on 
  a 
  trawl 
  line 
  set 
  in 
  

   about 
  75 
  fathoms, 
  in 
  latitude 
  39^ 
  and 
  longitude 
  T2.''\ 
  

  

  ' 
  Amer. 
  Jour. 
  Sci. 
  and 
  Ai'ts, 
  xvii, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  48. 
  

  

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