NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM THE 
GULF OF MEXICO AT VERA CRUZ AND TAMPICO. 
By Davin Srarr Jorpan and Mary Cynrtnia DickErson, 
Of Stanford University. 
During the winter of 1898-99, Professors Jordan and Snyder made 
a large collection of fishes in Mexico. The greater part of this col- 
lection came from the rivers, and the species obtained have been 
already recorded in the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commis- 
sion for 1899. 
The marine species are not included in this paper, and these are 
here recorded. The localities are two—Vera Cruz and Tampico. At 
Vera Cruz seines are used on the sandy beaches, and the fishes secured 
are sent to the markets of the City of Mexico, our specimens having 
been obtained in these markets. At Tampico specimens were taken 
from the muddy estuary of the Rio Panuco and elsewhere along the 
sandy shores. — 
The fish fauna of the east coast of Mexico is not rich, and it 1s con- 
fined mainly to species which inhabit sandy shores. It is, however, 
of interest, as hardly any collecting has been done hitherto between 
Yucatan and Corpus Christi, in Texas. In all this region 
| “The thousand miles of shapeless strand 
From Brazos to San Blas that roll 
Their drifting dunes of desert sand,” 
none of the rock fishes or coral fishes, Cheetodontidse, Pomacen- 
tride, and the like, so characteristic of the fauna of Cuba, are to be 
found. 
A series of the specimens mentioned in this paper is in the collec- 
tions of the United States National Museum. 
A single species (Bairdiella verw-crucis) is described as new. 
Family CARCHARIID 4. 
CARCHARIAS PLATYODON (Poey). 
One specimen from Tampico. 
Length 24 feet. Evidently identical with specimens collected by 
Doctor Jordan at Galveston in 1882 and described as C. platyodon.* 
% @Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 243. 
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