LIST OF FISH. 



Hab.— N. America, Ohio. 



a. Stuffed. N. America. Presented by Edward Doubleday, Esq. 



b. Stuffed (Young). N. America. Presented by Edward Double- 

 day, Esq. 



c. Stuffed. Gulf of Florida. 



d. In spirits. Young. New York. From Mr. Warwick's collec- 



tion. 



8. Acipenser rupertianus. Land Sturgeon. 



Acipenser ruthenus major, Forst. Phil. Trans, lxiii. p. 149, 1773. 

 Acipenser rupertianus, De Kay, Nat. Hist, of New York, p. 347, pt. 



1 (Zool.), 1842. Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am. pt. iii. p. 311, 



pi. 97, f. l,a,6, c, 1836. 



Hab. — N. America. 



a. Stuffed. N. America. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



9. Acipensebes transmontanus. Columbian River Sturgeon. 



Acipenser transmontanus, Richardson, Faun. Bor. Am. pt. iii. p. 

 281, pi. 97, f. 2, a,b,c, 1836. De Kay, Nat. Hist, of New 

 York, p. 347, pt. 1 (Zool.), 1841. 



Hab. — Columbian River. 



3. Dorsal-plates in front sloping, behind very high, ending in 

 a point, and open to the base of the point. Skin covered with small 

 and largish pectinated bony scales and larger stellulated shields. 

 Cirrhi simple. Lower lip iucontinuous, or only rudiments of a lip 

 in either angle of the mouth. — Helops. 

 Helopes, Brandt S,~ Ralz. Med. Zool. 3. Fitz. Sf Heckle, Ann. 



Wien. Mus. i. 264 (not Fabr.). 

 Sturiones, sp., Brandt 8r Ratz. Med. Zool. 349. 



10. Acipenser stellatus. The Seuruga or Stellated Sturgeon. 



Elops, Ovid, Halieut. v. 132. Columella, lib. viii. c. 16. Mlian, 

 lib. viii. c. 28. Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. xxxii. c. 54. 



Elops Rhodius, Varro. lib. ii. c. 6. Gellius, lib. vii. c. 16. 



Huso VI. Antaceus rostratus, Mars. Dan. Pann. Mys. iv. 37, t. 12, 

 f. 2. 



Acipenser stellatus, Klein, Hist. Lib. Miss. t. iv. p. 14, No. 7. 



