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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
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but a few species of Bdone and Hemiramphus are found in rivers 
in various parts of the world. 
Family 73 . — C YPEINOD QNTIBiE. (20 Genera, 106 Species.) 
“ Fresh- water fishes, covered with scales, the sexes frequently 
differing, mostly viviparous.” 
Distribution. — Southern Europe, Asia, Africa and North 
America, but most abundant in Tropical America. 
The distribution of the genera is as follows * 
Cyprinodon (11 sp.), Italy, North Africa and Western Asia to 
Persia, also North America from Texas to New York ; Fitzroya 
(1 sp.), Montevideo ; Characodon (1 sp.), Central America ; Tellia 
(1 sp.), Alpine pools of the Atlas : Limnurgus (1 sp.), Mexican 
plateau; Lucania (1 sp.), Texas; Haplochilus (18 sp.), India, 
Java, Japan, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Seychelle 
Islands, Carolina to Brazil, Jamaica ; Fundidus (17 sp.), North 
and Central America and Ecuador, Spain and East Africa ; 
Fixidus (3 sp.). Tropical America, Cuba and Trinidad ; Orestias 
(6 sp.), Lake Titacaca, Andes ; Jenynsia (1 sp.), Eio Plata; Fseu- 
doxiphophorus (2 sp.), Central America ; Belonesox (1 sp.), Cen- 
tral America; Gamhtsia (8 sp.), Antilles, Central America 
and Texas ; Anableps (3 sp.), Central and Ecpiatorial America ; 
Bcecilia (16 sp.), Antilles, Central and South America ; Mol- 
lienesia (4 sp.), Louisiana to Mexico; Platypcecilus (1 sp.), 
Mexico; Giravdinus (10 sp.), Antilles and South Carolina to 
Uruguay; Lepistes (1 sp.), Barbadoes, 
Family 74.— HETEEOPYGII. (2 Genera, 2 Species.) 
“ Fresh- water fishes, with posterior dorsal fin, and very small 
scales.” 
Distribution.— Fresh waters of the United States. 
Amblyopsis (1 sp.) is a blind fish found in the caverns of Ken- 
tucky ; while Chologastes (1 sp.), which only differs from it in 
having perfect eyes, is found in ditches in South Carolina, 
