102 FISHES OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK 



Family SQUATINID^ 



(Marine) 



17. Squatina squatina (Linn.) Monkfish. Uncommon. Summer. 



Family RAJIDvE 

 (Marine) 



18. Raja erinacea Mitch. Common Skate. Common Resident. 



19. Raja diaphanes Mitch. Big Skate. Tolerably common. Sep- 



tember to December 30, probably resident. 



20. Raja eglanteria Bosc. Clear-nosed Skate. Not uncommon. July 



to September. 



21. Raja stabuliforis Garman. Barn-door Skate. Common. October 



to June. 



Family NARCOBATID.E 



(Marine) 



22. Tet ronarce ocddentalis (Storer) . Torpedo. Accidental. Summer. 



Family DASYATID^E 



(Marine) 



23. Dasyatis centrum (Mitch.) Common Sting Ray. Uncommon, 



formerly common. July and later in the year. 



24. Pteroplatea maclura (Le Sueur). Butterfly Ray. Uncommon. 



Family MYLIOBATID^E 



(Marine) 



25. Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitch.) Cow-nosed Ray. Uncommon. 



Summer and autumn. 



Family ACIPENSERID^E 

 (Ascending fresh water streams from the sea.) 



26. Acipenser sturio Linn. Common Sturgeon. Not uncommon. 



February to fall. 



27. Acipenser brevirostrum Le Sueur. Short-nosed Sturgeon. Rare. 



May. 



Family LEPISOSTEID^ 



(Fresh-water) 



28. Lepisosteus osseus Linn. Long-nosed Gar. Occasional. 



Family SILURID^ 



29. Felichthys marinus (Mitch.) Gaff -topsail Catfish. Sometimes 



common. August. (Marine). 



30. Galeichthys felis (Linn.) Sea Catfish. Rare. (Marine). 



