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CHAP. XX.] FISHES. 447
Family 64—STOMIATID^. (4 Genera, 8 Species.)
" Small marine fishes, naked or with very fine scales."
DiSTKiBUTiON.—The Mediterranean and Atlantic.
These are deep-sea fishes, ranging from Greenland to beyond
the Equator.
Family 65.—SALMONID^. (15 Genera, 157 Species.)
"Fresh-water fishes, many species periodically descending
to the sea and a few altogether marine :—Salmon and Trout."
DiSTEiBUTiON.—The Palaearctic and Nearctic Eegions, and one
genus and species in New Zealand. A considerable number of
species are confined to single lakes or rivers, others have a wide
distribution.
The genera are distributed as follows :
Scdmo (83 sp.), rivers and lakes of the Palsearctic and
Nearctic Eegions, as far south as Algeria, Asia.Minor, the Hindoo-
Koosh and Kamschatka, and to about 38° North Latitude in
North America, many of the species migratory ; Oncliorhynchus
(8 sp.), American and Asiatic rivers entering the Pacific, as far
south as San Francisco and the Amur ; Brachymystax (1 sp.),
Siberian rivers, from Lake Baikal and the Atlai Mountains
northwards; Luciotrutta (2 sp.), Caspian Sea and Volga;
Plecoglossus (1 sp.), Japan and Formosa ; Osmerus (3 sp.), rivers
of temperate Europe and North America entering the Atlantic,
and one species in California ; Thaleichthys (1 sp.), Columbia
Eiver, Vancouver's Island ; Hypomesiis (1 sp.), coasts of Cali-
fornia, Vancouver's Island, and North-eastern Asia ; Mallotus
(1 pp.), coasts of Arctic America from Greenland to Kams-
chatka ; Retropinna (1 sp.), fresh waters of New Zealand;
Coregonus (41 sp.), fresh waters of northern parts of temperate
Europe, Asia and North America, many of the species migra-
tory : Thymallus (6 sp.), fresh waters of temperate parts of
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