1884,] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. ITT 



OPHIDIID^. 



Family Synonyms. 



< Pantopteres, Dum^ril, Zoologie Analytique, p. 115, 1806. 

 <^ Ofidini, Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiolog. Siciliana, p. 38, 1810. 



< Ophididw, Bonaparte, Giom. Accad. di Scienze, v. 53 (Saggio Distrib. 



Metod. Animali Vertebr. a Saiigue Freddo, p. 38), 1832. 

 ■< OpMdiidm, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 133, 1838 ; 



t. 4, p. 276, 1840. 

 <l OphidontdcB, Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 49, 



259,1 1839. 



< OphidiidcB, Adams, Manual Nat. Hist., p. 105, 1854. 



< OpMdinoB, Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish. B. M., p. 153, 1856. 



< Ophididw, Rich, Encycl. Brit., 8th ed., v. 12, p. 268, 1856. 



< Ophididce, Girard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pacific Oc, v. 10, 



Fishes, p. 137, 1858. 

 <^ Ophidioidei, Bleeker, Enum. Sp. Pisciuni Aichipel. Indico, p. xxv, 1859. 



< Ophidiidce, Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., v. 4, p. 370, 1862. 

 = Ophidiidce, Gill, Arrangement Fam. of Fishes, p. 3, 1872. 



= Ophidiidce, Putnam, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 16. p. 339, 1874, 



< Ofidiidei, Emery, Atti R. Accad. dei Lincei (3), Fis.Mem., v. 3, p. 168, 



1880. 

 •-= Ophididce, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., pp. 400, 792, 1882. 



Anguilliformes, gen., Cuvier. 

 Xiphoides, gen., Risso, 1826. 



Subfamily Synonyms. 



< Ophidiini, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t, 2, p. 133, 1838 ; 



t. 4, p. 276, 1840. 



< Ophidince, Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, p. 260, 1839. 

 <C Ophidiiformes, Bleeker, Enum. Sp. Piscium Archipel. Indico, p. xxv, 



1859. 

 = Ophidiina, Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., v. 4, p. 376, 1863. 

 = Ofidiina, Emery, Atti R. Accad. dei Lincei (3), v. 7, p. 168, 1873. 



Ophidioidea with chin ventrals, represented by bifid barbel- 

 like filaments, and the anus in the anterior half of the length. 



This family is well-marked by- the encroachment of the ventrals 

 forwards under the chin and between the rami of the mandible, 

 on which account the species were supposed to have barbels 



' At p. 49, regarded as one of the "Families of the Gymnetres ; at p. 159 

 as the 4. subfamily ^^Ophidoninae " of the "tribe Gymnetres" (family not 

 differentiated), and at p. 259, mentioned as "3. subf^m. Ophidonidae." 



