FISHES OF THE EAST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA. 811 



83.— CLUPEID^. 



Brevoortia menhaden (Mitch.) -Gill— Menhaden {Vineyard Sound-,) 

 niunuawhatteaug (Narragansett Indians) ; pogy, poghaden (east coast 

 of New England) ; moss-bunker (Neiv York) ; panhaden, panhagen (New. 

 England) ; hard-head, bony-fish (Massachusetts Bay) ; skippaug or 

 bunker (east end of Long Island); bony-fish (Saybrook); white-fish 

 (Saybrook to Milford, Connecticut) ; fat-back and yellow-tail (coast of 

 North Carolina); bug-fish (Carolina). 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 

 Alosa sapidissima (Wilson) Storer. — Shad. 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Opisthonema thrissa Gill. — Thread -herring ; menhaden (Portland); 

 shad-herring (Netv York). 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Pomolobus pseudoharenGtUS (Wilson) Gill. — Herring (Southern 

 States) ; alewife (Netv England) ; gaspereau (British provinces) ; spring- ' 

 herring (New England); aumsuog (Narragansett Indians) ; kyack, blue- 

 back, alewife, sawbelly, cat-thresher (Portland, Me.) 

 Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Pomolobus mediocris (Mitch.) Gill. — Tailor herring (Potomac) ; fall- 

 shad. 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Clupea harengus Linn. — English herring. 

 Polar regions to Cape Cod. 



84,— DOBOSOMLD^B. 



Dorosoma Cepedianum (Lac.) Gill. — Toothed herring. 

 Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 



85.— ENGBAULXDJE. 



Engraulis vittatus (Mitch.) Bd. and Girard. — Anchovy. 



Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 

 Engraulis Brownii (Gmelin) Val. — Anchovy. 



Cape Cod to Florida (New York, Val). 



86.— SFLUBID^E. 

 2Elurichthys MARINUS (Mitch. ) Baird and Girard. — Fork-tailed cat-fish. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 

 Ariopsis Milberti (Val.) Gill.— Sea cat-fish. 



Cape Cod to Florida. 



87.— CONGBID^E. 



Conger oceanica (Mitch.) Gill. — Conger-eel. 

 Newfoundland to West Indies. 



88.— ANGUILLID^. 



Anguilla bostoniensis (Les.) DeKay. — Common eel. 

 Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. 



