GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 



Anadromoits. — Passing from the sea into fresh waters, as the salmon and certain other fishes do 

 in order to spawn. 



Bathybial. — Living in depths: said of fishes and other creatures which inhabit the depths of the 

 ocean. 



Bayous. — Plural of bayou: a term employed to signify a channel proceeding from a lake or river. 

 Bayou is from a French word, signifying a long narrow channel or gut. As applied to a channel 

 proceeding from a river or lake it appears to be a United States term and is adopted here. 



Brackish. — Salt water diluted with fresh water, as at the mouths of rivers and estuaries. 



Catadromous. — Passing from fresh water into the sea, as the eel does to spawn. 



Fluviatile. — Pertaining to rivers : inhabiting rivers. 



Lacustrine. — Pertaining to lakes : inhabiting lakes. 



Landlocked. — Inclosed or encompassed by land: a term employed in regard to certain varieties of 

 marine fishes which live in lakes having no direct communication with the sea: for instance, 

 the ouananiche.. 



Marine. — As a term employed in the check-list to denote such fishes as inhabit the sea without 

 respect to the open sea or the depths. 



Parasitic. — Dependence of an animal or plant upon another animal or plant for subsistence by 

 living in or on it. 



Pelagic. — Belonging to the ocean: inhabiting the open ocean. 



The symbol of Mars. <f , is the zoological mark for the male, that of Venus, 9 , for the female. 

 [In the figures in the plates wherever the sexes are outwardly different, and in cases where the sexes 

 are not outwardly different, but where sex was determined when the specimens were opened, males 

 and females are distinguished by those symbols. In other instances it is impossible to indicate sex.] 



