Contributions to tlie Fauna of the Bahamas 



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As to the nomenclature I follow Jordan's and Everman's Catalogue \ though 

 without committing myself to complete agreement with their views; as to the 

 arrangement in families, I follow Bodlenger's system ^ as regards the Teleosteans. 



A. Selachii. 



Fam. Ginglymostomidse. 



Ginglymostoma cirratum, Gmelin. 

 Common (Exped. Geogr. Soc.) 



Fam. Galeidse. 

 Hi/poprion brevirostris, Poey. 

 Watlings [Alhatrofts Exped. 1886). 



Carcharhinus obscurus, Le Sueur. 



Common. 



Fam. Sphyrnidae. 



Sphyma tiburo, L. 

 Abaco {Albatross Exped. 1886). 



Fam. Dasyatidae. 



Urolophus janiaicensis, Cuv. 



Collected at Mastic Point on Andros. Observed along the west side of 

 Andros. Nassau [Exped. Geogr. Soc.) 



One specimen (37 cm.) gave birth to three young ones, measuring 13 cm. 



B Teleostei. 



Fam. Elopidae. 

 Elops saur us, L. 



Collected by the Expedition of the Geogr. Soc. Bait, at Hog Island, where 

 young ones were abundant. 



Fam. Albulidae. 

 Albula vulpes, L. 



Several specimens at Mastic Point on Andros. — Spanish Wells [Exped. 

 Geogr. Soc). 



' The Fishes of North and Middle America. — Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum. No. 47. (1896—1900). 

 ^ Teleostei in The Cambridge Natural History. Vol. VII and in Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History (7) 13, p. 164 (1904). 



