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2428. JORDAN (1920). The Genera of Fishes, part IV. 



David Starr Jordan. 



Greeleya Jordan, 493 ; orthotype Eximia rubellio Greeley. Substitute for Eximia 

 Greeley, preoccupied. 



Ribeiroa Jordan, 564; orthotype Paragonus sertorii Ribeiro ; substitute for Para- 

 GONUS Ribeiro, preoccupied. 



Quisque Jordan, 571 ; orthotype Q. gilberti Jordan (a small herring from the Miocene 

 of Elmodena, California, with very strong serrae on the belly, and the back 

 also armed; body compressed; vertebrae, 32). 



Ganoessus Jordan, 571; orthotype Ganolytes clepsydra J. & G. (fossil). A large 

 herring, with enameled scales and hour-glass shaped vertebrce, differing from 

 Ganolytes in the much thinner scales. Vertebrae, 42. 



Scomberessus Jordan, 571; orthotype Scomberesox acutillus J. & G. (fossil). Dif- 

 fers from the living genus Scomberesox in the much larger dorsal, of 16 rays. 



Aristoscion Jordan, 571 ; orthotype A. emprepes Jordan. (A robust fossil Sclenoid, 

 from the Miocene at Lompoc, allied to Cynoscion, but the anal rays more 

 numerous, 1.15 in number, the dorsal rays about XII — 1.20, and the caudal 

 fin very large. Vertebrae 14 + 10 or 11.) 



Beltion Jordan, 571; orthotype B. peronides Jordan (fossil). (Belonid-e, distin- 

 guished from Belone by needle-like jaws, moderate, even teeth, and larger 

 scales; Miocene, Lompoc, California.) 



Sebastoessus Jordan, 571; orthotype S. apostates Jordan (fossil). Scorp.^nid^, 

 near Sebastodes, but the interneurals all slender and not dilated ; fin spines 

 moderate, the second anal spine not enlarged; vertebrae, 24; Miocene, Lompoc, 

 California. 



Sebastinus Jordan, 571; orthotype Rixator inezle J. & G. (fossil). Miocene 

 ScoRP/ENiD^; allied to Sebastodes Gill, but with undilated interneural spines, 

 and the second anal spine very elongate. 



2429. JORDAN & GILBERT (1920). The Fossil Fishes of the Diatom Beds of 

 Lompoc, California. Leiand Stanford Junior University Publications, Feb- 

 ruary, 1920. 



David Starr Jordan ; James Zaccheus Gilbert. 

 Turio Jordan & Gilbert, 15; orthotype T. wilburi J. & G. (fossil Scombrid). 

 Thyrsocles Jordan & Gilbert, 14, 19; orthotype Thyrsites kriegeri J. & G. (fossil 



Scombrid). 

 Thyrsion Jordan, 17; orthotype T. velox Jordan (fossil Scombrid). A synonym 



of Thyrsocles J. & G. 

 Zaphleges Jordan, 23; orthotype Z. longurio Jordan (fossil Scombrid). 

 Ocystias Jordan, 18; orthotype O. sagitta Jordan (fossil Scombrid). 

 Zelosis Jordan & Gilbert, 24; orthotype Clupea hadleyi J. & G. (fossil, perhaps 



Alepocephalid). 

 Araeosteus Jordan & Gilbert, 25; orthotype A. rothi J. & G. (fossil, apparently 



Zaprorid). 

 Rhythmias Jordan & Gilbert, 27; orthotype R. starrii J. & G. (fossil Sparid). 

 Plectrites Jordan, 28; orthotype P. classeni Jordan (fossil Sparid). 

 Lompochites Jordan, 29; orthotype L> hopkinsi Jordan (fossil, apparently 



Carangoid). 

 Rixator Jordan & Gilbert, 31; orthotype R. porteousi J. & G. (fossil Scorp.enid). 

 Zororhombus Jordan. 39; orthotype Z. veliger Jordan (fossil Pleuronectid). 



