Fishes from the Puerto Rico Plateau

20 Dennis Marine Fishes of the Puerto Rico Plateau December 2000
Myrophis platyrhynchus Breder, 1927
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 146 mm TL), Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [ANSP 136523]; (1: 166 mm TL), Virgin
Islands, OREGON II 24254 [ANSP 140577]; (2: 98-102 mm TL), Great Camanoe Isl. [CAS 54475].
broadnose worm eel.
Myrophis punctatus Lütken, 1851
Silvester (1916: 214), as Myrophis longleii, (1: 12 cm), sand flats, Guánica [PUZM 3083].
Fowler (1917), examined, St. Thomas.
Silvester (1918: 20), as M. longleii, Pl. 2, Fig. 1.
Austin (1971a), (2: 113-316 mm TL), toxic waste fish kill, Río Guanajibo, Mayagüez; hypoxia fish kill, Laguna
Joyuda.
Martin & Patus (1973), Bahía Jobos; Bahía Guayanilla.
Cooper (1974), (60), rotenone, Syringodium bed, La Parguera.
González-Azar & Vilella (1975), collected, Laguna Ceiba.
Martin & Patus (1975), reef & cays, ship channel, outfall, Bahía Jobos.
Kimmel (1975), (1), algal mat, Punta Las Tunas.
Wood et al. (1975), collected, inner bay, Bahía Guayanilla.
Yoshioka (1975d), (1), rotenone, Punta Manati.
Dunne & Brown (1979), (1), rotenone, Anegada.
Martin & Cooper (1981), Syringodium beds, La Parguera.
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 353 mm TL), Boca de Congrejos, San Juan [ANSP 114540]; (1: 121 mm TL), leeward,
Laurel reef, La Parguera [ANSP 134326]; (2: 176-177 mm TL), Ojo de Agua spring, near central San Francisco,
Guayanilla [USNM 147623]; (8: 88-231 mm TL), mangrove creek, Punta Monserrate, Luquillo [USNM 147630];
(1: 121 mm TL), submarine dock, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas [ANSP 124024].
speckled worm eel.
Ophichthus gomesii (Castelnau, 1855)
Evermann & Marsh (1900: 75), (1: 216 mm TL), Mayagüez.
Ginsburg (1951a), (1), Puerto Rico.
Randall (1968a: 31), Fig. 29, (1: 588 mm specimen), sandy bottom, 15 m, hook and line, La Parguera [UPRM 2396].
McCosker et al. (1989), (1: 630 mm TL), La Parguera [ANSP 134328]; (1: 74 mm TL), muddy bottom, Bahía
Guayanilla [ANSP 153324]; (1), La Parguera [MNHN 1974-169]; (1: 210 mm TL), Mayagüez, FISH HAWK
[USNM 125507].
shrimp eel.
Ophichthus ophis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Randall (1967), food habits.
Randall (1968a: 31), collected, Puerto Rico.
UPRM collection, (1: 630 mm TL), sandy bottom, 10 m, spear, Crashboat Basin, Aguadilla [UPRM 2233].
spotted snake eel.
PRISTIGASTERIDAE
Chirocentrodon bleekerianus (Poey, 1867)
Poey (1881: 343), as Pellona bleekeriana, Puerto Rico
Stahl (1883: 79), as Pellona bleekeriana, Puerto Rico.