106 CHECK LIST OF FISHES OF THE DOMINION. 



484. Leptagonus decagonus Bloch and Schneider. 

 Marine: in deep water. 



Arctic Ocean, extending southward to coasts of Newfoundland and Norway. 



485. Podothecus acipenserinus Tilesius. 

 Common Alligator-fish. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound, extending northward to Alaska, hence, including the 

 Aleutian Islands, westward to Kamchatka. 



486. Agonus cataphractus Linnseus. 

 Sea Poacher: Pogge. 

 Marine. 



Arctic Ocean: Davis Straits, at least on the western coast of Greenland: seas of northern 

 Europe: also recorded from Great Britain, and from the coast of France. 



487. Averruncus emmelane Jordan and Starks. 

 Dark-coloured Alligator-fish. 



Marine. 



Known from British Columbia and Puget Sound. 



488. Xystes axinophrys Jordan and Starks. 

 Marine. 



Known from British Columbia and Puget Sound. 



489. Bathyagonus nigripinnis Gilbert. 

 Bathybial. 



British Columbia: ranges from the coast of the State of Washington northward to the 

 Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea. 



490. Xenochirus pentacanthus Gilbert. 

 Marine: in deep water. 



British Columbia: ranges from coast of California northward to Bering Sea. 



491. Odontopyxis trispinosus Lockington. 

 Marine: in deep water. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound southward to Santa Barbara, California: recorded 

 from Alaska (Lockington, 1879). 



492. Bothragonus swanii Steindachner. 

 Marine. 



British Columbia and Puget Sound. 



493. Aspidophoroides olriki Liitken. 

 Marine. 



Arctic Ocean: 'Davis Straits, at least on the Greenland side: also recorded from the Kara 

 Sea.* 



*"The Dutch expedition took 15 specimens of this form in Barents Bay [Kara Sea] and probably confused it 

 with A. nwnopterygius." Jordan and Evermann. 



