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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I ZOOLOGY. 



OLIGOPLITES Gill. 



Type : Chorinemus occidentalis Gunther 

 =Scomber saurus Bloch & Schneider. 



Range: Tropical seas of America; one 

 species in fresh water. 



Family CARANGID^. 



i. Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier & Valen- 



ciennes) J. & E., 899. 



Habitat: Lake Yzabal to Lake Mara- 

 caibo. 



Family GOBIID^. 



PHILYPNUS Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



Type: Platycephalus dormitator Bloch 



= Gobiomorus dormitor Lacepede. 

 Range : Both slopes of middle America. 



1. Philypnus dormitor (Lacepede), 



J. & E., 2195. 



Platycephalus dormitator Bloch ; Ba- 

 trachus guavina Bloch & Schneider; 



Eleotris longiceps Gunther; Eleotris 

 dormitatrix Cuvier. 



Habitat : Eastern slope of Mexico, Cen- 

 tral America (Lake Nicaragua) to 

 Surinam ; entering salt water. 



2. Philypnus maculatus (Gunther), 



J. & E., 2195. 

 Philypnus lateralis Gill. 

 Habitat : Pacific slope from Sonora to 



Panama and Ecuador; entering salt 



water. 



DORMITATOR Gill. 



Prochilus Cuvier. 



Type : Dormitator gundlachi Poey. 

 Range that of the single species. 

 A i. Dormitator maculatus (Bloch), 1 



J. & E., 2196. 



Eleotris mugiloides, sima and f gran- 

 disquama Cuvier & Valenciennes; 

 Eleotris latijrons Richardson ; Eleo- 

 tris somnolentus Girard; Eleotris 

 omocyaneus Poey ; Dormitator mi- 

 crophthalmus Gill ; Dormitator gund- 

 lachi Poey; Dormitator lineatus 

 Gill. 



1 The Atlantic and Pacific slope forms have at times 

 been considered distinct. 



Habitat: Atlantic slope from South 

 Carolina to Para; Pacific slope from 

 Cape San Lucas to Panama; enter- 

 ing fresh and salt water. 



GUAVINA Bleeker. 



Type: Eleotris guavina Cuvier & Va- 

 lenciennes. 



Range : Cuba to Rio Grande do Sul. 

 A i. Guavina guavina (Cuvier & Valen- 

 ciennes), J. & E., 2198. 



Habitat: Cuba to Rio 'Grande do Sul; 



entering rivers and salt water. 

 A2. Guavina brasiliensis (Sauvage). (Prob- 

 ably identical with guavina.) 



Habitat: Bahia. 

 ELEOTRIS Bloch & Schneider. 



Type : Gobius pisonis Gmelin. 

 Culms Bleeker. 



Range : Both slopes of middle America, 

 West Indies, south to Rio de Janeiro. 



1. Eleotris amblyopsis Cope, J. & E., 2199. 



Habitat: Surinam. 



2. Eleotris pisonis (Gmelin), J. & E., 2200. 



Gobius amorea Walbaum ; Eleotris gy- 

 rinus Cuvier & Valenciennes; Eleo- 

 tris belizianus Sauvage. 

 Habitat : Florida to southern Brazil. 

 A3. Eleotris perniger (Cope), J. & E., 2201. 



Habitat : Jamaica to Rio de Janeiro. 

 4. Eleotris picta Kner & Steindachner, 



J. & E., 2201. 



Culius aquidens Jordan & Gilbert. 

 Habitat: Pacific slope, Sonora to Ec- 

 uador. 



