EEL. 781 



11. Angtjilla vulgaris Tarton. 



Common Eel. 



European Synonymy, (var. vulgaris ? ) 



Mnrwna anguilla, LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., i, 426.— Bloch and Schneidbk, Systema loh- 

 thyol., 486, and of all early writers. 



Anguilla vulgaris, Torton, British Fanna, 87. — Fleming, British Animals, 199. — Gun- 

 THER, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mas., viii, 28, and of European authors geuerrally. 



Anguilla canariensis, callensis, aouUrostris, mediorostris, oxyrhina, pelcinensis, migratoria, 

 flttviatilis, ciwieri, bibronii, savignyi, morena, marginata, microptera, altirostris, 

 platycephala, latirostris, nilotiea, cegypiiaca, hiierniea, and many other names of Euro- 

 pean species- makers. 



American Synonymy, (var. roairata ? ) 



Murcena anguilla, Schopff, Beohaoht. Naturforscher, Berlin, viii, 138. 



Avguilla vulgaris, Mitchill (1814), Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soo., i, 360 ; Am. Mo. Mag., ii, 



241.— GuNTHER (1870), Cat. Fishes, viii, 30. — " Dareste, Monograph of Anguilliform 



Fishes," — fide Baird (unites into one, all the species of Anguilla described from the 



Northern Hemisphere). 

 Murcena rostrata, LeSueur, Journ. Phil. Ac. Sc. i, 81, — Rich., F. B. A , iii, 267. 

 Anguilla rostrata, DeKay, Fishes N. T., 312.— Storer, Synopsis, 485.— Jordan (1876), 



Bull. Buff. Soo. Nat. Hist., 96. ; Man, Vert., 304, sec. ed., 338. 

 Murasna bosioniensis, LeSueuk, Journ Acad., i, 81. — Storer, Kept. Fishes Mass., 158. — 



Thompson (1842), Hist. Vt., 148. 

 Anguilla bostoniensis, DeKay, Fishes N. Y., 313. — Ayrbs, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, 279. — 

 Stoker, Synopsis, 48.'i ; Fishes Mass., 18.55, 408. — Gill, Cat, Fishes East Coast, 1861, 

 56; Can. Nat, Aug., 18U.5, 20; Kept. U. S. Fish Commission, 1871-72, 811.— Gtjnther, 

 Cat. Fishes, 1870, viii, 31, and of late authors generally. 

 Anguilla serpentina, Storer, Synopsis, 488.— Gill, Cat. Fishes E. Coast, 1861, 56. 

 Murcena .serpentina, LeSueur, I.e., i. 82. — Storer, Kept. Pishes, 158. — Thompson, Hist. 



Vt., 1842, 148. 

 Anguilla argentea, DeKay, Fishes N. Y., 313, — Storer, Synopsis, 485. — Gill, I.e. 

 Murcena macrocephala, LeSueur, 1 c , 82. 



Anguilla macrocephala, DeKay, I.e., 313 — Storer, Synopsis, 486. — Gill, 1 c , 82. 

 Anguilla laticauda, Rafinesque, Ich. Oh,, 77. 

 Anguilla aterrima, Rafinesque, 1 c, 78. 

 Anguilla xanthomelas, Rafinesque, I.e., 78. 

 Anguilla lutea, Rafinesque, I.e., 78.— Kirtland, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, 234.— 



Storek, Synopsis, 486, and of some Western writers. 

 Anguilla tenuirostris, DeKay, Fishes N. Y., 310.—" Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish, 44." 

 Anguilla novceorleanensis, BIaup, 1 c, 43. 

 Anguilla punctatissima, KauS; 1,o , 44. 



Anguilla texana, Kaup, 1 c. 45.— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, viii, 32. 

 Anguilla notsce ierrw, Kaup, l.p., 45. — Gill, l.c , 1861, 56. 

 Anguilla walashensis, Kaup, I.e., 46. 

 Anguilla tyrannus, Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Sarv., 1859, 75. 



Body cylindrical, compressed behind, ending in a point ; head long, flattened above ; 

 mouth horizontal, extending to beyond the eye, the lower jaw rather the longer ; eye 



