776 
Balistes, 56*, 623* 
Balistide, 623 
banded rockfish, 643* 
banded sunfish, 514* 
bandfishes, 577 
barbero, 619 
barracuda, 438* 
barracudas, 437 
Barramunda, 241 
Giinther on, 241 
barriers, 
local, 107 
mountain-chains as, 119 
to dispersion of river-fishes, 
106-128 
to movement of fishes, 94 
waterfalls and cascades, 109 
watersheds as, 114 
basal bone of dorsal 
220* 
basking-shark, 196, 197* 
bass, and their relatives, 5 31- 
564 
bassalian fishes, 99 
bastard halibut, 702 
batfish, 669, 754, 756* 
shoulder-girdle of, 754* 
Bathymaster, 713* 
Bathymasteride, 713 
Batrachoidide, 735 
Batoidei, suborder of, 206 
becuna, 438 
Beleosoma, 527* 
bellows-fish, 749 
Belonide, 426 
Berndt, photo by, 132* 
Berycidaz, 466 
Berycoid fishes, 465 
skull of, 465* 
Berycoidei, 465-472 
Beryx, 466* 
skull of, 465* 
beshow, 649 
biajaiba, 550* 
bigeye, 546%, 547 
bishop-fish, 151 
black angel-fish, 614* 
black bass, 516 
Hallock on, 517 
Henshall on, 517 
large-mouthed, 519 
smal]-mouthed, 134*, 518 
black-fin s apper, 550 
black grouper, 539 
black nohu, 52*, 647* 
black-nosed dace, 383* 
black roncador, 570 
black-sided darter, 526* 
black swallower, 27*, 574* 
Gill on, 574 
black tai, 558 
blackfish, Alaska, 423* 
blacksmith, 592 
fin, 
Index 
blanquillos, 575 
bleak, 382 
blennies, 717-738 
Blennius, 718* 
blenny, kelp, 718* 
sarcastic, 717* 
Blepsias, 659* 
blind Brotula, 734* 
blind cave-fish, 420* 
blindfishes, 734 
of Mammouth Cave, 421* 
blob, 655* 
Blochiide, 724 
Blochius, 724* 
blueback salmon, 296 
blue-breasted darter, 
529* 
blue cod, 651 
bluefin cisco, 290* 
bluefishes, 133*, 493, 494* 
Baird on, 494 
California, 568 
destructiveness of, 494 
blue-gill, 515* 
blue-green sunfish, 24, 25%, 
564* 
dissection of, 25* 
blue parrot-fish, 605* 
blue parrot-fish, jaws 
604* 
blue-samlet, 435* 
blue tang, 618* 
boarfishes, 609 
bobo, 437* 
bocaccio, 640 
boga, 563 
bonaci arara, 539 
bonaci cardenal, 539 
bonito, 479 
bony fishes, 264 
classification of, 265 
Bothinz, 697 
bottle-nosed chimera, eg of, 
34* 
bowfins, 262* 
Brachymystax, 291 
brain or sensorium, 39 
of fish, 11 
of monkfish, 204* 
Branchiostoma, 165* 
bream, 382 
Bregmacerotide, 734 
Brevoortia, 277* 
bristly globefishes, 633* 
brit, 434* 
broad soles 705 
brook-trout, 333, 334*, 335 
Brotula, 734* 
Brotulide, 733 
brown tang, 53*, 619* 
Brycon, 381 
Bryostemma, 721*, 724* 
budai, 601 
84*, 
of, 
buffalo-cod, 651 
buffalo-fishes, 391, 392* 
shoulder-girdle of, 379* 
buffalo-sculpin, 654* 
bullhead shark, 187* 
bumpers, 491 
burbot, 743, 744* 
butter-fishes, 498, 538 
butterfly-fish, 613* 
butterfly-fishes, 613 
cabezon, 653 
cabra mora, 18* 
cachucho, 551%, 552 
Czlorhynchus, 746* 
cagon de lo alto, 551 
Calamus, 559* 
calico-bass, 512 
calico-salmon, 295 
California hagfish, 169* 
lancelet, 165* 
miller’s-thumb, 657* 
sucker, 393* 
Callbreath’s hatchery, 310 
Callichthyide, 404, 714 
Callipterygide, 711 
Callorhynchus, egg of, 34* 
Calotomus, jaws of, 602 
Campostoma, 31*, 386* 
candil, 470 
candle-fish, 347 
Cantor, on fighting-fish, 49 
capelin, 349* 
capitaine, 598* 
Caracanthide, 649 
Carangide, 487 
Carassius, 360* 
Carcharias, 199* 
carcharioid sharks, 197 
Carcharodon, 196* 
cardinal-fishes, 531* 
caribe, 380 
Carangus, 490* 
carp, 382, 389 
Carpiodes, 392* 
carp-suckers, 391, 392* 
casabes, 491 
Cassiquaire, dispersion 
through, 116 
catadromous fishes, 48 
Catalina flying-fish, 43%, 430, 
431* 
catalineta, 555 
catalufa, 545* 
catalufa de lo alto, 504* 
catalufas, 503 
catfishes, 
African, 51, 396-406 
channel, 398, 399* 
destroyed by lampreys, 
177* 
electric, 58*, 4o2* 
fossil, 405 
