Report Of The United States Commissioner Of Fisheries For The Fiscal Year 1928 With Appendixes PDF Download

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries, Vol. 2: For the Fiscal Year 1928, With Appendixes The present memoir comprises a list of all the fishes and fishlike vertebrates known to occur in the waters of north and middle America; more specifically all of continental America north of the Isthmus of Panama, and the outlying islands including the West Indies, the Greater and the Lesser Antilles, Greenland, Iceland, and the islands off the Pacific coast of Central America, Mexico, the United States, and Alaska. The salt-water species on the northern coasts of Colombia and Venezuela have been included. Those of the Galapagos, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the west coast of Kamchatka are not included. Oceanic species in general within the 1,000-fathom curve have been admitted, although it is not always easy to draw the line. The majority of the species included will be found described in Fishes of North and Middle America, a 4-volume work by Jordan and Evermann published in 1896 to 1900 as Bulletin 47 of the United States National Museum. No other general work restricted to this continent and containing descriptions of all known species has been written. On that work was based the Check List of 1896 by Jordan and Evermann, of which the present Check List may be regarded as a revision. In the present list are given, in as natural sequence as our present knowledge permits, (1) the names of all species and subspecies that the authors admit as valid, (2) as many of the vernacular or common names for each species as have been readily obtainable, (3) the known geographic distribution of each species, (4) the reference to the original description of the species, and (5) the reference to every real synonym. If a species has been described as new but once, there will, of course, be but one reference (as, for example, Photocorynus spiniceps on p. 509); if it has been described as new six times there will be six references (as, for example, Eupomotis gibbosus on p. 302). Thus, this work is really a check list of all the scientific names that have ever been applied to any American fish. As 4,139 species and subspecies are admitted as valid, and as there are more than 3,000 real synonyms, it appears that each American fish has been described as new about two times on an average. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.