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32 Dennis Marine Fishes of the Puerto Rico Plateau December 2000 Histrio histrio (Linnaeus, 1758) Poey (1881: 340), as Antennarius inops, type locality, Puerto Rico [USNM 37434]; as Pterophryne laevigata. Stahl (1883: 79), as Pterophryne laevigata; (p. 246), as ?Antennarius portoricensis 21 , Puerto Rico. Evermann & Marsh (1900: 334), as Pterophryne gibba, new genus, new species. Nichols (1930: 392), as Histro gibbus, new genus. Schultz (1957: 104), synonymized A. inops with H. histro. Martin & Patus (1973), Bahía Jobos. González-Azar & Vilella (1975), collected, Laguna Ceiba. Martin & Patus (1975), reef & cays, ship channel, Bahía Jobos. Pietsch & Grobecker (1987), (2: 11-12.5 mm SL), between Tortola & Peter Island [UMMZ 185418]. sargassumfish, pescador, sapo. OGCOCEPHALIDAE Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818) 22 Evermann & Marsh (1900: 338), (1: 70 mm TL), beam trawl, 137 m, off Mayagüez; p. 339;as H. smithii (1: 83 mm TL type), taken with above specimen [USNM 49537]. FMNH collection, (1, 24.3 mm SL), trawl, N. Tortola, OREGON 2616 [FMNH 64849]; (2: 38.6-42.2 mm SL), trawl, N. Tortola, OREGON 2621 [FMNH 64850]; (1: 52.6 mm SL), trawl, off Punta Higuero, OREGON 2621 [FMNH 64858] Ogcocephalus nasutus (Cuvier, 1829) 23 Cuvier & Valenciennes (1837: 440), as Malthea vespertilio, Puerto Rico. Poey (1881: 341), as Mathe vespertilio, Puerto Rico. Stahl (1883: 79), as Malthe vespertilio, Puerto Rico. Evermann & Marsh (1900: 338), as Ogcocephalus vespertilio, new genus. Saunders (1966a), as O. vespertilio, blood parasites, Puerto Rico. Saunders (1966b), as O. vespertilio, blood characteristics, Puerto Rico. Ramsey (1967), as O. vespertilio, trawl, Bahía Mayagüez. Randall (1967), food habits. Randall (1968a: 295), Fig. 324, (1: 259 mm TL), St. John. Earle (1972), obs., algal flats, Greater Lameshur Bay, St. John. Erdman (1976), as O. vespertilio, nuptial color. Bradbury (1980: 251), (1), trawl, 51 m, N. of Culebra, OREGON 2626 [FMNH 64842]; (1), trawl, 44 m, Vieques, OREGON 2668 [CAS 23918]. shortnose batfish, diablo, murciélago de mar. Ogcocephalus parvus Longley & Hildebrand, 1940 Erdman (1956: 338), (1: 76 mm TL), fish trap, 55 m, off Joyuda [USNM 164504] 24 . 21 Pietsch & Grobecker (1987) consider this name nomen dubium. 22 Margaret Bradbury (pers. comm.) could not find any substantive differences between Halieutichthys smithii Evermann & Marsh, H. caribbaeus Garman, and H. aculeatus thus all are listed under H. aculeatus. 23 Bradbury (1980) found no specimens of Ogcocephalus vespertilio north of Brazil and attributes most Caribbean records of the species to O. nasutus.
Dennis Marine Fishes of the Puerto Rico Plateau December 2000 33 Erdman (1976), spawning season, nuptial colors. roughback batfish, diablo. Ogcocephalus pumilus Bradbury, 1980 Bradbury (1980: 272), (20), OREGON 2626, trawl, 51 m, N of Culebra, [FMNH 64843, 64844; MCZ 45087]; (2), OREGON 2627, trawl, 220 m, S of Vieques [FMNH 64841]; (3), OREGON 2668, trawl, 70 m, off Hatillo [MCZ 45085]. dwarf batfish, diablo. OPHIDIIDAE Brotula barbata (Schneider in Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Erdman (1956: 337), (1: 600 mm TL), “deep water off west coast”, Puerto Rico [UPRM 889]. Dammann (1969), (1), rotenone, Chocolate Bay, St. John. bearded brotula, brótula. Lepophidium brevibarbe (Cuvier, 1829) 25 Erdman (1956: 338), as L. profundorum, (1: 175 mm TL), deep water, Puerto Rico [UPRM 709]; (2) Puerto Rico [USNM ?]. Ramsey (1967), (1), trawl, Bahía Mayagüez. Kimmel (1975), as L. profundorum, (5), rock outcrops, Punta Las Tunas. UPRM collection, frequent, muddy bottom, Bahía Mayagüez. fawn cusk-eel. Lepophidium pheromystax Robins, 1960 Dennis et al. (in prep), (2), trawl, 70 m, off Arecibo, OREGON 2667 [UF 207042; FMNH 69301]; (2), trawl, 77 m, N of St. Thomas, OREGON 2607 [FMNH 65952]. cusk-eel. Ophidion holbrookii (Putnam, 1874) Dennis et al. (in prep), (1: 90 mm TL), rotenone, 2 m, Lesser Lameshur Bay, St. John [UF 209081]; (1), trawl, 49 m, Bahía Mayagüez, OREGON 5458 [UF 221855]. bank cusk-eel. Ophidion lagochila (Böhlke & Robins, 1959) Dennis et al. (in prep), (1: 63 mm TL), rotenone, 12 m, El Negro reef, Mayagüez [ANSP 142863]. cusk-eel. 24 Bradbury (1980: 276) confirms the identity of Erdman's specimen. 25 Robins (1986) reports the common shallow-water Lepophidium species without body markings previously referred to as L. profundorum (Gill, 1863) is L. brevibarbe and L. profundorum is a junior synonym of L. crevinum (Goode & Bean, 1885).
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