EIGENMANN I CATALOGUE OF FRESH WATER FISHES. 



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Subclass DIPNOI. 



Order DIPNEUMONA. 



Family LEPIDOSIRENID^. 



LEPIDOSIREN Fitzinger. 



A mphib ich thys H ogg. 



Type : Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger. 

 Range that of the single species. 



Ai. Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 



Giinther, III, 322. 



Lepidosiren assimilis Castelnau ; Lepi- 

 dosiren articulata Ehlers. 

 Habitat: Amazons to Paraguay. 



Subclass TELEOSTOML 



Order RHOMBOGANOIDEA. 

 Family LEPISOSTEID^E. 



LEPISOSTEUS Lacepede. 1 



Cylindrosteus, A tractosteus, Sarchirus 



Rafinesque; Lepidosteus Agassiz. 

 Type : Lepisosteus gavialis Lacepede. 

 Range: Panama and northward to 

 Cuba and the Atlantic slope of 

 North America. 



I. Lepisosteus tristcechus (Bloch & Schnei- 

 der) , Meek, 6. 



Lepidosteus berlandi Girard; Atractos- 



teus lucius Dumeril; Lepidosteus 



viridis Giinther. 

 Habitat : Cuba and Mexico from Tam- 



pico north. 



2. Lepisosteus tropicus (Gill), . . . .Meek, 7. 

 Habitat: Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Rio 



Usumacinta to Panama ; Huamuchal. 



Superorder OSTARIOPHYSI. 

 Order NEMATOGNATHI. 



Family ASPREDINID^). 

 Subfamily BUNOCEPHALINJE. 



BUNOCEPHALICHTHYS Bleeker. 

 Type: Bunocephalus hypsiurus Kner. 

 Range that of the single species. 

 A i. Bunocephalichthys hypsiurus (Kner), 



E. & E., 14. 

 Habitat: Rio Branco. 



AGMUS Eigenmann MS. 

 Type : Bunocephalus scabriceps E. & E. 



Lepisosteus osseus, a north temperate species, reaches 

 Tampico just within the tropics. 



Range : Amazons to Guiana. 

 A I. Agmus scabriceps (Eigenmann & Eig- 

 enmann). 



Habitat: Jutahy. 

 2. Agmus lyriformis Eigenmann MS. 



Habitat: British Guiana. 



BUNOCEPHALUS Kner. 

 Type: Platystacus verrucosus Bloch. 

 Range: Amazons; Paraguay; Rio 

 Grande do Sul. 



