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Synonyms and References: 



Peliona bleekeriana Poey, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 2, 1867: 242 (orig. descr.; type local. Matanzas, Cuba; 



cotypes MCZ 17845; one USNM 120426); Poey, Synop. Pise. Cubens., 1868: 419 (ref. to orig. descr., 



notes); Poey, An. Soc. esp. Hist. Nat., 5(2), 1876: 180, p. 148 in separate (common name, ref.); 



Howell-Rivero, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 82 (3), 1938: 171 (cotypes in bad condition). 

 Chirocentrodon taeniatus Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 7, 1868: 463 (orig. descr.; type local. Jamaica, West 



Indies; types BMNH); Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. nat. Mus., 47(1), 1896: 435 (descr. after 



Giinther); Norman, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (9) II, 1923 : 21 (descr., P. bleekeriana probably not distinct); 



Beebe and Tee- Van, Zoologica, N. Y., JO (i), 1928: 43, fig. (refs., diagn., tables, size, local abund., 



Port-au-Prince, Haiti); Myers, Copeia, 1929: i {C. bleekerianus and C. caribbaeus probably distinct); 



Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 45 (ref.). 

 IHsha bleekeriana Jordan and Evermann, BuU. U. S. nat. Mus., 47 ( i), 1 896 : 436 (descr. after Poey) ; Evermann 



and Marsh, BuU. U. S. Fish Comm. (1900), 20(1), 1902: 86 (diagn.); Nichols, N. Y. Acad. Sci., 10 



(2), 1929: 204 (distr., diagn., Puerto Rico). 

 IHsha caribbaea Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Publ., ZooL, 25 (i), 1923: igi, pi. 10, fig. i (orig. descr.; 



type local. Porto Bello, Panama; type USNM 81769); Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. 



Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 45 (ref.). 

 Medipellona bleekeriana Jordan and Seale, BuU. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 67(11), 1926: 417 (descr. after 



Poey; relation.). 

 Medipellona caribbea Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 6j (i i), 1926: 418 (diagn.). 

 Chirocentrodon bleekerianus Fowler, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad., 80, 1928: 456 (descr., taeniatus Gunther 



synon., Haiti); Jordan, Evermann, and Clark, Rep. U. S. Comm. Fish. (1928), 2, 1930: 45 (ref.); Breder, 



Copeia, 1942: 134, fig. i (synon., relation., descr.). 



