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208. CANTRAINE (1837). Memoire sur un poisson nouveau (Acanthoderma 



temmincki) trouve dans le canal de Messme. Journ. de Bruxelles. 



Francois Joseph Cantraine (1801-1863). 



Acanthoderma Cantraine, X, 1-19; orthotype A. temmincki Cantraine. A synonym 



of RUVETTUS COCCO. 



209. CUVIER & VALENCIENNES (1837). Histoire naturelle des poissons. XII. 



AcHiLLE Valenciennes. 

 Oplopomus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 66 (reference in synonymy) ; 



orthotype O. pulcher Ehrenb. = Gobius oplopomus Cuv. & Val. Replaces 



Centrogobius Blkr., 1874. 

 Cryptocentrus (Ehrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 111; orthotype C. 



MELEAGRis Ehrenb. = Gobius cryptocentrus Cuv. & Val. Replaces Para- 



GOBius Blkr. Ehrenberg's manuscript, Zoologia: Pisces, quoted by Cuvier and 



Valenciennes, seems never to have been published. 

 Amblyopus Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 139 ; logotype T^noides herrmannianus 



Lac. A synonym of T.^nioides Lac. 1803 



Apocryptes (Osbeck) Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 143; orthotype Gobius pectini- 

 ROSTis Gmelin = Apocryptes chinensis Osbeck, 1757, and in later transla- 

 tions (after 1758). Apocryptes Cuv. & Val. is plainly a revival of Osbeck's 

 genus, and the name ought not legitimately to be transferred to another group 

 as has been done by Giinther and Bleeker. Bleeker makes Gobius bato Ham. 

 the type of Apocryptes Cuv. & Val., as this is the first species named by these 

 authors under Apocryptes. But it would seem that Osbeck's haplotype (A. 

 chinensis) must be accepted in the revival of his genus, in which case 

 Apocryptes (Osbeck) Cuv. & Val. replaces Boleophphalmus Cuv. & Val. 

 (p. 198). As against the views here expressed, it may be urged that the pre- 

 Linnaean name Apocryptes Osbeck has no standing and Apocryptes Cuv. & 

 Val. is really based on Gobius bato, a species actually in hand, as the descrip- 

 tion shows. Apocryptes chinensis (pectinirostris) was included by error, 

 it being a member in fact of the genus Boleophthalmus Cuv. & Val., as 

 later writers have recognized. It may be urged further that the first desig- 

 nation of type of Apocryptes is that of Bleeker, who places it on Apocryptes 

 bato. 



A further point is that accepting Apocryptes in the Osbeckian sense leaves 

 the genus of Cuvier and Valenciennes without a name, unless we accept 

 Gobileptes Sw. But the scales in Gobileptes are described as large, while 

 those of Apocryptes bato are "exceedingly small". Swainson obviously drew 

 his Gobileptes from the description of Gobius acutipinnis Cuv. & Val., later 

 abandoning the genus, which he does not again notice. Among the numerous 

 genera of sharp-tailed gobies, I have not found the proper place for (Gobi- 

 leptes acutipinnis. This generic name, Gobilepres Sw., with no species 

 mentioned, is interpreted by Bleeker as referring to Gobius bato and hence 

 is regarded by him as a synonym of Apocryptes. 



Boleophthalmus Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 198; orthotype Gobius bodd.^rti Pal- 

 las. Perhaps a synonym of Apocryptes (Osbeck) Cuv. & Val., which see 

 above. 



Philypnus Cuvier & Valenciennes, XII, 235 ; haplotype Gobiomorus dormitor Lac. 

 Same as Gobiomorus Lac, as first restricted by Jordan. Gill has later lim- 

 ited the name to Valenciennea Blkr. 



