SEDGWICK & MURCHISON, 1828 125 



CXXXIII (A). SEDGWICK & MURCHISON, Fossil Fishes: Trans. 



Geol. Soc. (2), III, 1828. 



Adam Sedgwick and Roderic Impey Murchison. 



Dipterus Sedgwick & Murchison, 143 ; type Dipterus valenciennesi 

 Sedgwick & Murchison. 



CXXXIV. CUVIER, Le Rcgne Animal, distribue d'Apres son Organi- 

 sation: Edition II, Vol. II (Fishes etc.), 1829. 



Georges Cuvier. 



A work of great importance, constituting with the first edition in 

 1817 the foundation of modern Ichthyology. The classification of fishes 

 by Cuvier was for the first time solidly based on the true basis of Com- 

 parative Anatomy. 



According to Henry Weed Fowler {Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, 

 264) the first, second, fourth and fifth fascicles of the second volume 

 (Fishes etc.) of the Second Edition of the Rcgne Animal appeared in 

 January, February and March 1829. The third was delayed until about 

 July. The third and fourth volumes of the Histoire Naturellc des Pois- 

 sons appeared later in the same year, 1829. These facts do not afifect 

 nomenclature, so far as we observe. We are indebted to Mr. Fowler for 

 the pagination of the Rcgne Animal, our two copies being reprints. 



Acerina Cuvier, 144 (Cuv. & Val., Ill, 3) ; type Perca cernua L. 



Identical with Cernua Schasfer , Acerina Giildenstadt, Percis Klein, and 

 Gymnocephalus Bloch. The eligibility of these earlier names awaits decision. 



Rypticus Cuvier, II, 144 (Cuv. & Val., HI, 60) ; type Anthias sapo- 

 NACEus Bloch. 

 More correctly written Rhypticus. 



Pentaceros Cuvier, 145 (Cuv. & Val., Ill, 30) ; type Pentaceros 

 CAPENSIS C. & V. 



This name has been regarded as preoccupied by Pentaceros Schulte, 1760, a 

 star-fish.* It has been replaced by Quinquarius Jordan. This change may not 

 be necessary. According to Prof. Walter K. Fisher Pentaceros of Schulte is not 

 properly a generic name but a quasi-vernacular. 



Pentaceros Schroter, 1782, a name for the same animal is doubtfully tenable. 



*Dr. Fisher {Smithson. Misc. Coll., no. 1799, 1908) explains that Schulte 

 ("Versteinerte Seesteme") following the pre-Linnsean work of Linck {Dc Stel- 



