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1796 



47. VOLTA (1796). Ichthyolithologia Veronese. 

 Giovanni Serafino Volta. 

 Monopteros Volta, CXCL; orthotype M. gigas Volta (fossil). Replaces Pla- 

 TiNX Ag. MoNOPTERUS Lac, 1798, is thus preoccupied and must give way 

 to Fluta BI. & Schn. (1801). 



1801 



55. BLOCK & SCHNEIDER (1801). Systema Ichthyologice. 

 Mark Elieser Block; Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750-1822). 

 Periophthalmus Bloch & Schneider, 6Z ; logotype, as first restricted (by Gill, 1863) 

 GoBius SCHLOSSERI Pallas. The name therefore replaces PERIOPHTHALMODO^ 

 Blkr., while the common species known as Periophthalmus barbarus or 

 P. koelreuteri is the type of Euchoristopus Gill (1863). 

 Synanceja Bloch & Schneider. 194; logotype S. verrucosa B1. & Schn., as first 

 restricted by Miiller, 1843. This limitation to species without vomerine teeth 

 holds as against Bleeker's restriction to the first species named, S. horrida. 

 Synanceja thus replaces Spurco Commerson, Synanceichthys Blkr. and 

 Emmydrichthys Jordan & Rutter. S. horrida is type of Synancidium 

 Miiller. I am not convinced by Bleeker's statement that Synancidium is not 

 a valid genus. 

 Fluta Bloch & Schneider, 565; orthotype Monopterus javanensis Lac. Name a 

 substitute for Monopterus Lac. (1798). The latter is preoccupied by Mo- 

 nopteros Volta (1796). The type species should stand as Fluta alba 

 (Zuieuw). 



1803 



56. LACfiPfiDE (1803). Histoire naturelle des poissons. IV, V. 



Bernard Germain Lacepede (1756-1825). 



Enoplosus Lacecepede, IV, 540; orthotype Ch.^todon armatus Shaw. This genus 



dates from 1803. The name Enoplosus was not used by White in 1790. 

 Stolephorus Lacepede, V, 381; logotype S. commersonianus Lac. In view of the 

 fact that the descriptions of Stolephorus of Lacepede, Bleeker and Jordan 

 were drawn from this species, the second-named by Lacepede, it may well be 

 regarded as the type of Stolephorus. S. japonicus, the first-named species 

 and the one first formally indicated as type, was very scantily described, and 

 was unknown to authors until very recently. In this view Stolephorus will 

 replace or include Anchoviella Fowler (1911). This reverses the decision 

 in part I, page 67. 



1804 



56A. LACfiPEDE (1804). Memoires stir plusieiirs animaux de la Nouvelle 



Hollande, etc. Ann. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV, 1804. 



Bernard Germain Lacepede. 



Prionurus Lacepede, IV, 211 ; orthotype P. microlepidotus Lac. 



Platypodus Lacepede, IV, 211; orthotype P. furca Lac. 



This genus, overlooked by subsequent writers, seems to belong to the 

 Osphronemid^, an ally of Macropodus. It is said to have large fan-like 

 ventrals of at least eight rays, the dorsal extending from the nape to the 

 base of the caudal, which is narrow, forked, its lobes half as long as rest 

 of body; pectorals small; anal very low. This may be, as suggested by 

 Dr. Gunther for Macropodus, a domesticated form of Polyacanthus. Both 

 names, if correctly written (Macropus; Platypus), are preoccupied. 



