PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



issued 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Vol. 88 Washington: 1940 No. 3085 



TWO NEW GENERA AND THREE NEW SPECIES OF 



CHEILODIPTERID FISHES, WITH NOTES ON 



THE OTHER GENERA OF THE FAMILY 



By Leonard P. Schultz ^ 



In studying the new forms of cheilodipterid fishes described in this 

 paper some difficulty was experienced in deciding to which genera they 

 should be referred. An examination of the literature and the cheilo- 

 dipterid material in the National Museum suggested that the genera in 

 this family were in great need of comparison. Therefore I have pre- 

 pared a tentative key to the genera of the family Cheilodipteridae with 

 the hope that other investigators will improve upon it as their avail- 

 able material is studied. As a result probably some of the genera I 

 have placed in synonymy will be removed. 



Certain ichthyologists have proposed new generic names in this 

 group of fishes founded on characters that may not be of even specific 

 significance, such as "a much larger, red, marine European species 

 with considerably larger scales, longer maxillary, and differently 

 formed head bones generally." - I refer here to such features as color 

 spots, streaks, and lateral bands; number of soft rays in dorsal and 

 anal fins; number of scale rows (especially in regard to the forms 



> I wish to thank Dr. G. S. Myers, of Stanford University, for information concerning 

 the type of Galeagra pammelas ; Dr. F. P. Koumans, Rijksmuseum van Natnurlijke Historie. 

 Leiden, for a description of the teeth of the type of Pseudamia poly stigma ; Dr. K. H. 

 Barnard, South African Museum, for information on Parahynnodus and a sketch of the 

 teeth of 'Neoscomhrops annectcns ; Dr. P. Chabanaud, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris, for sketches of the teeth of the types of Cheilodipterus lineatus and C. quinquelinea- 

 tns; Dr. S. L. Hora, Indian Museum, Calcutta, for much needed data on the type of 

 Brephostoma carpenteri. Through exchanges with J. R. Norman, of the British Museum, I 

 have been able to examine paratypes of Gjrmnapogon japonicus and Synagrops microlepis^ 



2 Whitley, Gilbert P., Occ. Pap. Mas. Zool. Univ. Michigan No. 405, pp. 1-4, pi. 1, 1939. 



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