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Type Specimen : f Zaphleges vigilax Jordan 1927a, holotype, CAS 55506 (SU 458, 188), partial left counter¬ 
part. Cybiidae. 
Type Locality : Lompoc, Monterey Formation, Late Miocene, Santa Barbara County, California. 
Referred Specimens : None. 
Referred Specimen and Holotvpe of iStarrias ischvrus Jordan reidentified bv David (4943) : CAS 55488 (SU 
701, 91), partial left counterpart. Megalopidae. 
Order Anguilliformes 
Suborder Muraenoidei 
Family Muraenidae 
Genus Gymnothorax Bloch 1795 
Gymnothorax mordax (Ayres 1859) 
Type Specimen : Extant, Muraena mordax Ayres 1859, no types known (Eschmeyer 1998:1121). 
Type Locality : Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch and Lavenberg 11975:87) : No specific specimens or localities are mentioned. 
Remarks : Fitch and Lavenberg (1975) mention that teeth of G. mordax have been found in some Pleistocene 
and Pliocene deposits in southern California. 
Family |Deprandidae Jordan 1924 
Genus f Deprandus Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan 1921 
f Deprandus lestes Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan 1921 
Selected Synonymy & References 
f Deprandus lestes Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan 1921:252, pis. 9b, 9d, 30b (restoration), 
f Deprandus lestes Jordan and Gilbert; Jordan 1924:49-50, pis. L (p. 49), L (p. 50). 
Type Specimen : f Deprandus lestes Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan 1921, holotype, SU 201 A, lower jaw (pi. 9d), 
whereabouts unknown. Plate 9d is labeled f Deprandus sp., but the specimen has 201A etched on it, there¬ 
fore we assume it is a figure of the holotype. Muraenidae. 
Type Locality : Monterey Formation, Late Miocene, El Modena, Orange County, California. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan (4921) : From type locality; SU 200A, lower jaw counter¬ 
part (unfigured), whereabouts unknown. 
From Alhambra, Los Angeles County, formation and age unknown; SU 571, lower jaw counterpart 
(fig. 9b), whereabouts unknown. 
Referred Specimens in Jordan 11924:49-501 : This is a very confusing passage. Jordan described and figured 
two additional specimens, lower jaws, from Alhambra. Both figures are labeled plate L, one on page 49 
and the other on page 50. Neither of the specimens have a catalog number. Jordan assigned f Deprandus 
to a new family fDeprandidae, which he thinks “... may prove to be related to the Muraenisocidae 
rather than to the Muraenidae”. 
Order Albuliformes 
Suborder Notacanthoidei 
Family Halosauridae 
Genus f Laytonia David 1943 
f Laytonia californica David 1943 
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