CHAP, xx.] FISHES. 447 



FAMILY 64 STOMIATID^E. (4 Genera, 8 Species.) 

 " Small marine fishes, naked or with very fine scales." 

 DISTRIBUTION. The Mediterranean and Atlantic. 



These are deep-sea fishes, ranging from Greenland to beyond 

 the Equator. 



FAMILY 65. SALMONID.E. (15 Genera, 157 Species.) 



"Fresh- water fishes, many species periodically descending 

 to the sea and a few altogether marine : Salmon and Trout." 



DISTRIBUTION. The Palsearctic and Nearctic Kegions, and one 

 genus and species in New Zealand. A considerable number of 

 species are confined to single lakes or rivers, others have a wide 

 distribution. 



The genera are distributed as follows : 



Salmo (83 sp.), rivers and lakes of the Palaearctic and 

 Nearctic Kegions, as far south as Algeria, Asia Minor, the Hindoo- 

 Koosh, and Kamschatka, and to about 38 North Latitude in 

 North America, many of the species migratory ; Onckorhynchus 

 (8 sp.), American and Asiatic rivers entering the Pacific, as far 

 south as San Francisco and the Am^fe ; Brachymystax (1 sp.), 

 Siberian rivers, from Lake Baikal and the Atlai Mountains 

 northwards; Luciotrutta (2 sp.), Caspian Sea and Volga; 

 Plecoglossus (1 sp.), Japan and Formosa; Osmerus (3 sp.), rivers 

 of temperate Europe and North America entering the Atlantic, 

 and one species in California ; ThaleichtJiys (1 sp.), Columbia 

 Eiver, Vancouver's Island ; Hypomesus (1 sp.), coasts of Cali- 

 fornia, Vancouver's Island, and North-eastern Asia; Mallotus 

 (1 sp.), coasts of Arctic America from Greenland to Kams- 

 chatka; Retropinna (1 sp.), fresh waters of New Zealand; 

 Coregonus (41 sp.), fresh waters of northern parts of temperate 

 Europe, Asia, and North America, many of the species migra- 

 tory : Thymallus (6 sp.), fresh waters of temperate parts of 



