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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  ANP 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  whence 
  it 
  ranges 
  to 
  South 
  Carolina. 
  None 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  representatives 
  

   of 
  tliis 
  genus 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  coast 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  (P. 
  scMulus, 
  

   alatus, 
  sirigatns, 
  evoJam, 
  frihulns) 
  is 
  recorded 
  north 
  of 
  Cape 
  Cod. 
  

  

  Siphostoma 
  louisianse 
  (GUnther). 
  Pipefish. 
  

  

  The 
  range 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  was 
  formerly 
  given 
  as 
  Virginia 
  to 
  Texas.* 
  

   In 
  their 
  recent 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  pipefish 
  family,t 
  Jordan 
  & 
  Evennann 
  

   assign 
  Siphostoma 
  louisianw 
  to 
  the 
  coast 
  section 
  between 
  Is'orth 
  Caro- 
  

   lina 
  and 
  Texas, 
  although 
  it 
  now 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  

   species 
  in 
  the 
  Chesapeake 
  Basin 
  has 
  been 
  determined. 
  Two 
  specimens 
  

   obtained 
  by 
  the 
  schooner 
  Grampus 
  on 
  July 
  19, 
  1892, 
  in 
  Kings 
  Creek, 
  at 
  

   Cape 
  Charles 
  City, 
  Va., 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  collection. 
  

  

  Cryptacanthodes 
  niaculatus 
  Storer. 
  Wrymouth 
  or 
  Ghostfish. 
  

  

  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  rather 
  rare 
  fish 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  Woods 
  Hole, 
  Mass., 
  

   on 
  December 
  18, 
  1896. 
  It 
  is 
  18 
  inches 
  long 
  and 
  presents 
  the 
  typical 
  

   coloration 
  and 
  markings. 
  The 
  southern 
  limit 
  of 
  its 
  range 
  given 
  in 
  

   recent 
  literature 
  is 
  Cape 
  Cod. 
  J 
  The 
  species 
  was 
  described 
  by 
  Storer 
  

   in 
  1839 
  from 
  a 
  specimen 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  coast, 
  Linsley§ 
  

   gives 
  tlie 
  fish 
  in 
  his 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Fishes 
  of 
  Connecticut, 
  and 
  

   remarks 
  that 
  a 
  spotted 
  wrymouth 
  13 
  inches 
  long 
  was 
  taken 
  at 
  Bridge- 
  

   liort 
  in 
  1842. 
  This 
  record 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  overlooked 
  in 
  recent 
  

   references 
  to 
  the 
  fish. 
  

  

  * 
  Synopsis 
  of 
  the 
  Fishes 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  1882. 
  

   t 
  Fishes 
  of 
  North 
  and 
  Middle 
  America, 
  1896. 
  

   i 
  Ibid. 
  

   § 
  Hilliman's 
  Journal, 
  vol. 
  xlvii. 
  

  

  