276 PEOCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SUPEEFAMILY TEUTHLDOIDEA. 



Synonym. 



Teuthidoidea QUI, Oat. Fishes E. Coast N. Am., p. 8, 1873. (Not de- 

 fined.) 



Acanthopterygian teleocephals witli thoracic ventrals; elongated, nar- 

 row, and closely connected pelvic bones ; cranium with double floor 

 and muscular tube ; maxillary (intermaxillary and supraraaxillary) 

 bones closely uuited ; undivided posttemporals co-ossified with the 

 cranium ; interneurals with transversely expanded buckler-like subcuta- 

 neous plates, which intervene between the spines and limit their erec- 

 tion forwards. 



I.— TEUTHIDID^. 



Synonyms as families. 



<[Lepto8ome8, Dum4ril, Zool. Anal., p. 134, 1806. ' 



<[Acanturini, Raf., Indice d'lttiol. Sic, p. 16, 1810. 



<]Zedia, Baf., Analyse de la Nature, 6. fam,, 1815. 



<^Teuthide8, Latreille, Fam. Nat. du R^gne Animal, p. 130, 1825. 



<Teuthye8, Cuvier, R^gne Animal, 2 ed. t. 2, p. 222, 1829. 



<Teuthyes, Cm. ^ Vol., Hist. Nat. des Poissons, 1. 10, p. Ill, 1835. 



.<;^Teutliididse, Bonaparte, Giorn. Arcad. di Scienze, v. .52 (Saggio Distrib. Metod. 



Animali Vertebr. a Sangue Freddo, p. 34), 1833. 

 <TeuthyidsB, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 130?, 1838; t. 4, p. 190, 



1840. 

 ■<Teuthyes, Agassiz, Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, v. 4, p. [xiii, 2, 12,] 41* 



206, 1843. 

 <:^Teuthie8, Agassiz, Rep. Brit. Ass. Adv. Science, 1844, p. 288, 1845. 

 <^Teuthididso, Richardson, Encycl. Brit., v. 12, p. 304, 1856. 

 =Acanthuroidei, Bleeker, Ennm. sp. Piscium Arch. Ind., p. xxii, 1859. 

 <Teutliidoid{e, Gill, Cat. Fishes E. Coast N. A., p. 34, 1861. 

 :=Acronuridae, GUniher, Cat. Fishes in Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 325, 1861. 

 <Acrouurid8e, Cope, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, n. s., v. 14, p. 459 (Oct. 7, 1870), 1871. 

 =Acanthurid8e, Gill, Arrangement Fam. Fishes, p. 7, 1872. 

 =Acanthuri, Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. k. Akad. der Wissensch. (Wien), b. 67, 1. Abth., 



p. 31, 1873. 

 =Acanthuridi, Poey, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., t. 4 (Enum Pise. Cub., pp. 7, 65), 



1875. 

 =TeuthididsB, Gill, Cat. Fishes E. Coast N. Am., pp. 8, 23, 1873. . 

 =Acronuridse, Giinther, Int. to Study of Fishes, p. 438, 1880. 

 =Teuthidid8e, Jordan 4- Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., p. 78, 1882. 

 =Acanthurid8e, Jordan ^- Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., p. 616, 1882. 



Syno7iyms as subfamilies. 



=Teuthydini, Bonajjarte, Trans. Linn Soc. London, v. 18, p. 302, 1840. 

 =Acanthurinae, Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 177, 255, 1839. 

 (S. F. of Coryphaenidse. ) 



* Theuties, pp. xiii, 2, 12 ; Teuthyei, p. 41 ; Teuthyea, p. 206. 



