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Siphateles mohavensis Snyder 1918 
Selected Synonymy & References (primarily fossils only) 
Siphateles mohavensis Snyder 1928:298. 
Gila bicolor mohavensis (Girard): Gilbert 1998:115-116. 
Siphateles mohavensis Snyder: Eschmeyer 1998:1110. 
Siphateles mohavensis Snyder: Smith et al. 2002:209. 
Siphateles mohavensis Snyder: Smith 2009:181. 
Type Specimen : Extant, Siphateles mohavensis Snyder 1918:298, holotype, USNM 76837 (Eschmeyer 
1998:1110). 
Type Locality : Mohave (= Mojave) River, near Victor (= Victorville?), California, USA. 
Referred Specimens in Smith et al. 12002:2091 : From White Hills near Airport Lake, formation not stated, Plio- 
Pleistocene, Inyo County; no specific specimens mentioned. 
Referred Specimens in Gobalet 12005:41 : From Mono Basin, formation not stated, Late Pliocene, Mono 
County; unspecified specimens of f S. mohavensis were described as a new species, f S. davidgainesi, but 
unfortunately the description remains unpublished, therefore the new name is unavailable. 
f Siphateles sp. 
Referred Specimens in Smith et al. 12002:209-210. table 11 : From Mono Basin, formation not stated, Late 
Pliocene, Mono County; mentions dentaries and masticatory plates, but no museum numbers. 
From Honey Lake, upper Alturas Formation, mid-Pliocene, Lassen County; no specimens mentioned. 
Referred Specimens in Smith et al. 12009:178-179. figs. 3a. i: 4c-el : From Keeler South: Owens Lake Sand, 
Owens Valley, mid-Pliocene, Inyo County; specimens (UMMP 50899-50903) consist of one complete and 
two partial pharyngeal bones, 40 isolated teeth, 25 partial dentaries, three hyomandibulae, eight cerato- 
hyals, two partial urohyals, four partial maxillae, one palatine, nine opercle fragments, three preopercles, 
four post-temporals, a basioccipital, five frontals, eight parietals, additional skull bones, and Weberian 
ribs. 
Order Argentiniformes 
Family Argentinidae 
Genus Argentina Linnaeus 1758 
Argentina sp. 
Referred Specimens in Huddleston and Takeuchi 12006: 33. table 1) : From LACM locality 6907, Pomona 
Freeway Chalk Hill, Puente Formation, Late Miocene, Los Angeles County; no specific specimens, just 
remains are present. 
Family Microstomatidae 
Remarks : We follow Nelson (2006:191-192) and consider the Bathylagids as a subfamily, Bathylaginae, of 
Microstomatidae. 
Genus f Bathylagus Gunther 1878 
f Bathylagus angelensis (Jordan and Gilbert 1919a) 
Figure 18 
Selected Synonymy & References 
f Azalois angelensis Jordan and Gilbert 1919a:32, pi. 15, fig. 2. 
f Azalois angelensis Jordan 1921a:249, pi. 23a (restoration). 
