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legio " Lophobranchii by Bleeker, and as a suborder (Hyposto- 

 mides) of the order Lophobranchii by A. Dumeril. Having no 

 skeleton to examine, I retain it in the present order solely on the 

 authority of Prof. Cope, and with some doubt as to its right 

 herein. 



PEGASIDJE. 



Family SynonymSi 

 <C Spherionidi? Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiolog. Siciliana, p. 40, 1810. 



< Pomanchia, Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, 25. fam., 1815. 



= Bypostomides, Latie He, Fam. Nat. du Regne Animal, p. 117, 1825. 



<^ SyngnathidcB, Bonaparte, Giorn. Accad. di Scienze, v. 52 (Saggio Distrib. 



Metod, Animali Vertebr. a Sangue Freddo, p. 39), 1832 ; Isis, 1833, 



c. 97, 119. 



< Syngnathidm, Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 195, 



831, 1839, 



< Syngnathidce, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 130, 1838 ; 



t. 4, p. 185, 1840. 

 <[ Sippocampidce, Nardo, Atti Congressi Scienz. Ital. rac. et ord., v. 1, p. 



70 (1842), 1845. 

 = PegasidcB, Kaup, Archiv fur Naturg., 19. Jahrg., B. 1, p^ 227, 1853 ; also 



Cat. Lophobr. Fishes Brit. Mus., p. 3, 1856. 

 = PegasidcB, Adams, Manual Nat. Hist., p. 94, 1854. 



= Pegasoidei, Bleeker, Enum. Sp. Piscium Archipel. Indico, p. xv, 1859. 

 — Pegasidoe, Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., v. 8, p. 146, 1870. 

 = Pegasidce, Cope, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., v. 20, p. 339, 1872. 

 = Pegasi, Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. K. Akad. der Wissensch. (Wien), B. 67, 



1. Abth., p. 49, 1873. 

 = PegasidcB, Cope, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, v. 13, p» 25, 1873. 



Subfamily Synonyms. 

 = Pegasini, Bonaparte, Giom. Accad. di Scienze, v. 52 (Saggio Distrib. 



Metod. Animali Vertebr. a Sangue Freddo, p. 39), 1832. 

 = Pegasini, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, x, p. 130, 1838 ; 



t. 4, p. 186, 1840. 

 = Pegasini, Nardo, Atti Congressi Scienz. Ital. rac. et ord., v. 1, p. 70 



(1842), 1844. 

 = Pegasini, Bonaparte, Catal. Metod. Pesci Europe!, pp. 9, 89, 1846.* 



Hemibranchs? with the snout projecting and the mouth 

 inferior. 



