670 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Am Is., 455 



Ascaris (parasite), 546 



Ascension I., 420 



Ashley Phosphate Beds, 

 540 



Ashmolean Coll., 518 



Asia, 405, 508, 590; salt 

 lakes, 406; fauna, 435; 

 fisheries, 469, 473, 479; 

 museums, 517; palseon- 

 tology, 531, 533-535, 

 537, 541, 542; fishes in- 

 troduced, 557, 558; pis- 

 ciculture, 564 



Asia, Russian Central, 

 480 



Asmodeus, 605 



Asphyxiation, 502, 584 



Aspidocotylea ■ (parasites), 

 545 



Aspidogaster (parasite), 545 



Aspidophorus, 609 



Aspidorhynchidse, 624 



Aspidorhynchus, 624 



Aspius, 377 



Aspredinid^, 377, 592, 637 



Aspredo, 578 



Aspro, 648 



Aspropotamos R., 447 



Assemblies — seeCongresses 



Associations — see Societies 



Assumption I., 437 



Assyrians, 488, 504, 521 



Asterolepidte, 664 



Asterolepis, 664 



Asterosteus, 664 



Astrachan, 462, 568 



Astrape, 408 



Astronesthes, 513 



Astronotus, 651 



Astroscopus, electrical or- 

 gans, 407; burrowing 

 habits, 500; nares, 527 



Asymmetron, 367, 610, 615 



Asymmetry, in caudal fin, 

 459; in flatfishes, 654 



Asyntaxis, 412 



Atelaxia, 661 



Ateleaspidte, 663 



Ateleaspis, 663 



Ateleopodidae — see Poda- 

 tellidae, 660 



Atherina, 415, 529, 645; 

 in fresh-water, 552, 645; 

 ' ' Mopskopf ," 604 ; persist- 

 ence of pronephros, 609 



Atherinichthys, 379, 559 



Atherinidse, 645 



Atherinopsu, 415, 589 



Athi R., 421 



Atitlan, Lake, 431 



Atlanta, Ga., 466 



Atlantic Ocean, fauna, 396, 

 420, 571; Fisheries Dis- 

 pute, 468; migrations, 

 515; plankton surveys, 

 571, 572 



Atlases, 508 



Atrato R., 434 



Atrial chamber, 584 



Auchenaspis, 663 



Auchenipterus, 577 



Auditory Organs, 379 f., 



591; ear, 379, 396, 501, 

 502, 549; membranous 

 labyrinth, 380, 501; We- 

 berian apparatus, 380, 

 381; nerves, 525, 604 



Aulastomatomorpha, 594 



Aulichthys, 589 



Aulorhynchidse, 589, 644 



Aulostomidse, 589 



Ausonia, 653 



Aust Cliff, 534 



Austral Is., 457 



Australia, 363,405; aquaria, 

 372; fishing, 372, 489, 

 490; fauna, 453, 454, 

 513, 580, 582; fisheries, 

 488; museums, 517; 

 palaeontology, 531-534, 

 536, 538, 540, 542; fishes 

 introduced, 557, 558, 

 559; pisciculture, 570 



Australian Bass — see Per- 

 calates 



Austria-Hungary, 505, 508; 

 fauna, 439, 440, 506; 

 fisheries, 466, 469, 474, 

 480; markets, 468; mu- 

 seums, 517; palaeontol- 

 ogy, 531, 534, 537-542; 

 fishes introduced, 557, 

 558 ; pisciculture, 565 ; 

 vernacular names, 600 



Autogeny — see Regenera- 

 tion, 575 



Autostylic skull, 592 



Autun, 534 



Auximetameric skull, 591 



Auxis, 572 



Avesa, 539 



Avilliers, 566 



Avon R., England, 442 



AvonR., New Zealand, 457 



Axillary arteries, 390 



Axillary hearts, 597 



Axis cylinder, 523 



Azores Is., fauna, 440; 

 fisheries, 480 



Azov, Sea of, 440 



Azygos fins, 417 



Azygos veins, 598 



Babber I., 455 



BaciUi, 404, 469, 547, 548 



Backbone — see Vertebral 



Column 

 Bacteria, 404, 514, 547, 



548, 549 

 Badis, 374, 577 

 Barau, 507 

 Bagrinse, 636, 637 

 Bahama Is., 430, 479 

 Bahia. 433, 537 

 Bale des Chaleurs, 531 

 Baikal, Lake, 438, 480 

 Baird, Cal., 562 

 Bairdiella, 415 

 Bait, 473, 488, 489 

 Bakonyerwald, 534 

 Balangi, 538 

 Balanoglossus (Hemichord- 



ate), 615 



Balaton, Lake, 543, 556; 

 fauna, 440; fisheries, 480 



Balbiani, nucleus of, 529 



Balearic Is., 440 



Bali I., 456 



Batistes, 662; skeleton, 590; 

 sense of smell, 594 ; sound, 

 594 



Balistida;, 395, 402, 449, 

 574, 661, 662 



Balkash, Lake, 438] 



Baltic Provinces, fauna, 

 450; fisheries, 487; pis- 

 ciculture, 568 



Baltic Sea, 506, 515, 543, 

 559, 564; fauna, 440, 

 446; fisheries, 471, 480, 

 490; food of fishes, 493; 

 plartkton surveys, 571 



Baltringen, 541 



Baluchistan, 435, 479 



Banda Is., 455 



Banff, 534 



Bangweolo, Lake, 423 



Banka I., 455 



Banks Coll., 517 



Barbados, 430, 479 



Barbasco (fish poison), 490 



Barbel — see Barbus 



Barbels, 498, 575, 599, 602 



Barbus, 394, 415, 506, 549, 

 558, 574, 582, 595, 602, 

 609, 635; in aquaria, 

 377, 378; B. mosal, size, - 

 498 



Barca R., 421 



Barcoo R., 454 



Barents Sea, 420, 571 



Barilius, 378 



Barometer-fish — see Co- 

 bitis, 381 



Barracuda — see Sphyrwna 



Barringtonia (poisonous 

 plant), 490 



Barrow R., 442 



Barrow-on-Soar, 535 



Barrow Straits, Canada, 

 424 



Bartlett Coll., 370 



Base-leveling, 405 



Basking Shark ^.see Ce- 

 torhinus 



Bass, 556, 569, 647 f. — 

 see also the various 

 genera 



Bassozetus, 385 



Batfish — see Mallhe 



Bath, England, 517 



Bathophilus, 572 



Bathylychnus, 572 



Batjan I., 455 



Batoidei, 388, 403, 515, 

 586, 620, 621; anatomy, 

 368; dentition, 396, 398; 

 scales, 400; embryology, 

 414; fins, 461, 603; eco- 

 nomic use, 465, 466; 

 muscles, 520; ova, 528; 

 in fresh-water, 552; re- 

 production, 580, 581, 

 608; jaws, 592; spinal 

 cord, 596; suprarenals. 



