Fishes of the Bahama Islands

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Family MUR.ENESOCID. Stilbiscus Edwardsi Jordan and Bollman. Collected at Green Turtle Cay in 1888, by Charles L. Edwards. Described in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, 1888, p. 549. Family OPHICHTHYIDJE (Snake Eels). Sphagebranchus Anguiformis (Peters). Collected by Glover M. Allen and Thomas Barbour off...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Family MUR.ENESOCID. Stilbiscus Edwardsi Jordan and Bollman. Collected at Green Turtle Cay in 1888, by Charles L. Edwards. Described in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XI, 1888, p. 549. Family OPHICHTHYIDJE (Snake Eels). Sphagebranchus Anguiformis (Peters). Collected by Glover M. Allen and Thomas Barbour off Abaco, 1904, and referred to in their Narrative of a trip to the Bahamas, Cambridge, Mass.. Dec., 1904; privately printed. Verma Kendalli Gilbert. A single species belonging to the family Ophichthyida (snake eels), heretofore known only on the coast of Florida, was obtained by the Expedition at Green Cay, June 30, 1903. Family MURNIDE (Morays). Lycodontis Moringa Cuvier (Common Spotted Moray). This distinctly marked eel reaches a length of 3 feet. It has been found in the West Indies and about Florida, ranging as far southward as Rio Janeiro and St. Helena. In the middle of July, 1903, a specimen was taken by the Expedition at Nassau. Lycodontis Funebris Ranzani (Black Moray). This eel is the largest of our American species, reaching a length of 6 feet or more and being noted for its extreme ferocity.- It is common on both of our coasts, from Florida Keys to Rio Janeiro and Gulf of California to Panama. A specimen was obtained by the steamer A Ibatross at Nassau during March, 1886. Echidna Catekata Bloch. A form of the most highly specialized morays; small in size but generally common in the West Indies and from Bermuda to Surinam. Collected by the steamer Albatross at Abaco in March, 1886. Family MYRID.E (Worm Eels). Myrophis Puxctatus Liitken. This species of eel, resembling an earthworm in appearance and size, is found in the West Indies and along the Gulf Coast southward to Surinam. Two specimens were collected by the Expedition of...