ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO PART I. 



1758 



1. LINN^US (1758). Systema Natures. Ed. X, Vol. 1. 



Carl LiNNE (Carolus Linn.eus). (1707-1778.) 



Trigla Linnasus, 300; logotype T. gurnardus L., as restricted by Kaup, 1873, Ap- 

 parently this should replace the later restriction to T. lyra L. of Jordan & 

 Gilbert, 1883, this species being type of Lyrichthys Kaup. 



Mormyrus Linnaeus, 327; logotype M. caschive Hasselquist, as restricted by Gill. 

 (Not M. CYPRINOIDES L., as stated in part 1, page 15; this species is the type 

 of AIarcusenius Gill. ) 



Tetraodon Linnaeus, 332; logotype T. lineatus L. I am compelled to revise my 

 judgment, as given in part I of the Genera of Fishes, page 15, in which I 

 present the reasons for regarding T. testudineus L. as the type of Tetraodon. 

 This judgment is based on Bleeker's restriction of the genus in 1865. I find 

 that an earlier restriction was made by Bonaparte in the Fauna Italica, about 

 1841, "Tetraodon lineatus Bloch" being taken as type following a suggestion 

 of Swainson. Bloch's account includes the synonymy and description of T. 

 lineatus L., although the figure he offers may have been based on an exam- 

 ple of T. stellatus. 



In this view of the case, the type of Tetraodon should be T. lineatus, 

 a fresh-water species of the Nile, with which the numerous marine species 

 called Ovoides (Arothron) may not be congeneric. According to Dr. Gill, 

 the type of Tetraodon is distinguished from the Pacific species known as 

 Ovoides by the form of the frontal bones, a matter which needs further 

 elucidation. 



In this view the name Spheroides should stand, as used by Jordan and 

 Evermann, for the allies of T. testudineus L. 



1764 



7. HOL^TTUYN (1764). A'aturlike historic volgens den Hcer Linnceus. 



Martin Houttuyn. 

 Conger Houttyn, VII, 103, and Torpedo Houttuyn, VII, 453, as quoted in Genera 

 of Fishes, page 22, are not presented by Houttuyn as generic names, and the 

 reference to them should be canceled. 



In a personal letter dated August 23, 1918, Mr. C. Davies Sherborn says: 

 "Torpedo is the trivial Linnaean name of the species Raja torpedo and Con- 

 ger is the trivial Linnaean part of the species name Mur^na conger. Neither 

 name is used scientifically nor is there any intention on Houttuyn's part 

 to do more than quote the Linnaean term for the fish he describes as 'Kramp- 

 fisch' and 'Conger'." 



The record of this work of Houttuyn should therefore be erased as hav 

 ing no relation to scientific nomenclature. 



1767 



9. MtJLLER (1767). Dclincationes Natiirce. II, 141. 

 Philip Ludwig Statius Muller (1725-1776). 

 Mr. Sherborn informs me that the generic names Acus, page 141, and 



