54 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



77. Ophichthus ocellatus (Le Sueur). 



Snapper Banks near Pensacola (Stearns coll., Goode & Bean 1879a, as Herpeloich- 

 thys ocellatus; Jordan 1884; Jordan & Davis 1888; and Jordan & Everniann 1896). 



78. Ophichthus gomesii (Castelnau). 



Snapper Banks near Pensacola (Stearns coll., Jordan & Gilbert 1882a, as 0. 

 chryaops; Jordan 1884, as 0. chrysops) ; and St. Augustine and Snapper Banks near 

 Pensacola (Jordan & Davis 1888). 



79. Mystriophis intertinctus (Richardson). 



Pensacola (Stearns coll., Goode & Bean 1879a, as Crotalopsis mordax, and Jordan 

 Si, Gilbert 1882, as Ophichthys mordax) ; Clearwater Harbor (Velie coll., Goode & 

 Bean 18796, as C. mordax, and Bean 1883, as C. mordax) ; Egniont Key (Jordan 1884e, 

 as 0. intertinctus); Snapper Banks (Stearns coll., Jordan 1884, as 0. sclnieideri); 

 Lemon Bay, Egmont Key, and Pensacola (Jordan & Davis 1888); Snapper Grounds 

 in 20.5 fathoms {Grampus coll., Kendall 1889, as 0. punctifer); Lemon Bay (Henshall 

 1889); and Ozena (Lonnberg 1894, as O. punctifer). 



TSii'BilE.'SlDlE.. The Morays. 



80. Lycodontis moringa (Cuvier), Common Spotted Moray. 



Key West (Jordan 1884a, as Sidera moringa; Henshall 1894, as Gymnothorax moringa', 

 Lonnberg 1894, as S. moringa; and Everraann & Kendall coll., 1896); Florida Keys 

 (Jordan 1884d, as S. moringa); Key West and Pensacola (Jordan & Davis 1888, as 

 G. vioringa) ; Key West and Key Largo (Henshall 1889, as S. moringa) ; Biscayne Bay 

 (McCormick coll.. Smith 1895, as G. moringa) ; Pensacola (Jordan & Evermann 1896). 



81. Lycodontis funebris (Ranzani). Black Moray. 



Key West (Jordan 1884a, as Sidera funebris; Jordan & Davis 1888, as G. funebris; 

 Henshall 1894) ; Florida Keys (Jordan 1884d, as S. funebris, and Jordan & Evermann 

 1896) ; Tortugas, Key West and Marco (Henshall 1889, as S. funebris) ; Biscayne 

 Bay (McCormick coll., Smith 1895). 



82. Lycodontis ocellatus (Agassiz). Spotted Moray. 



Pensacola (Stearns coll., Goode & Bean 1879a, as Gymnothorax ocellatus; Jordan 

 & Gilbert 1882, as Murana ocellata; and Jordan & Evermann 1896) ; Clearwater 

 Harbor (Velie coll., Goode & Bean lS79b, as G. ocellatus); west Florida (Kaiser & 

 Martin coll.. Bean 1883, as G. ocellatus); Egmont Key (Jordan 1884a and 1884e, as 

 Sidera ocellata) ; Santa Rosa Island (Jordan & Evermann 1886, as S. nigromarginata) ; 

 Pensacola Snapper Banks and Cedar Keys (Jordan & Davis 1888, as G. ocellatus) ; and 

 Snapper Banks (.Jordan &. Evermann 1896, as L. ocellatus, L. ocellatus saxicola, and 

 X. ocellatus nigromarginatus). 



ELOFID.S:. The Tarpons. 



83. Tarpon atlanticus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Tarpon. 



Garden Key (Girard 1859, as Megalops elongatns) ; St. Johns River (Jordan 1880a, 

 as Megalops thrissoides) ; Key West (Jordan 1884a, as M. atlanticus); Florida Keys 

 (Jordan 1884<i, as M. atlanticus) ; Tampa Bay to Punta Rassa, and Little Sarasota 

 Bay (Wilcox 1886, as M. thrissoides); Cards Sound and Punta Rassa (Henshall 1889, 

 aa M. atlanticus) ; Sarasota Bay, Charlotte Harbor and Caloosahatchee River (Hen- 

 shall 1894, as M. thrissoides) ; Clearwater Harbor, Key West, Charlotte Harbor and 

 New Smyrna (Lonnberg 1894); Biscayne Bay (McCormick coll.. Smith 1895, as M. 

 thrissoides) ; Indian River, Lake Worth, and Biscayne Bay (Evermann &. Bean 1896) ; 

 and Key West (Evermann & Kendall coll., 1897). 



84. Zilops saurus Linnseus. Ten-pounder. 



Cape Cod to Florida (Holbrook 1860); St. Johns River (Bean 1880); Pensacola 

 (Jordan & Gilbert 1882, and Bean 1883); Key West (Jordan 1884a); Florida Keys 

 (Jordan ISSid); Tampa Bay to Punta Rassa, and Little Sarasota Bay (Wilcox 1886); 

 Marco (Henshall 1889); Key West and Tampa (Henshall 1894); and St. Johns River 

 at Welaka (Kendall coll., 1897). 



