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applied tlie name Epkyrtns.^ For that ,i>eiius, therefore, Characinus 

 may be revived.^ 



The species of thetentii edition of the "Systeiua Xatura''' were referred 

 to liew genera in the following sequence: 



1777. Anostomus, Scopom (ex (inoN.). 



181;"). Tetra(jonoptcre, CuviF.i:. 



1815. Myletes, CuviKH. 



1817. Les Tetragonojttercs {Tetra(jonoiiteru», Aktkdi)"' Cuvieh. 



1845. Distichoflus, Mi'LLKk and Troschel. 



1845. .ili'sfes, MfiXER and Troschel=: Characinn^ restrictfd. 



Thus by successive eliminations the genus was linally restricted to 

 C. f/ibhosus. Its synonyms are as follows: 



Genus CHARACINUS. 



J're-binoinidJ si/tioni/Dis. 



<C/(«mj!'. Gronovius. Mns. Icbtli., I, p. 19 (?). 1754. 



Binomial synonyms. 



<^Characini {Salmo - ^ -) Linneus, Syst. Nat.. 10. ed., p. 311, 1758. 



<^<'hara.r, Scopoli, Int. Hist. Nat., p. 455, 1777. 



<^Characinus. Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, p. 2(19, 1802. 



<CCharacinHS, Swainsox, Nat. Hist. Fish., etc., II, p. 289, 1839 (not of Vol. I). 



<^EpicyrtHs, Muller and TitoscHEL, Hor:B Ichtli., II, p. 17, 1845. 



-^Anacyrtus, Gt'NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., Y, p. 346, 1864. 



<^('ynopof(tmus, Gauman, Bnll. Essex Inst., XXII, p. 11, 1890. 



==./Ha(>]/r<(/s, EiGENMANN, Proc. 11.8. Nat. Mus., XIV, p. 57,1891. 



Salmo, sp., LiXN.Ers et al. 



Piabnques esp., Cuvier, 1817. 



The name Characinus has been misapplied by at least two natural- 

 ists, viz: 



Characinns, Minding, Lehrb. Nat. Fische, p. 119, 1832 (=Cnriniata). 

 (7/«)-aomHS, SwAiNSON, Nat. Hist. Fishes, I, pp. 241,255,259, 1838 ( = ('uriniata). 



1 Cuvier and Valenciennes, XXII, p. 41, 1849. 



-Some may prefer to take Cluirnx, because Linna'us used the plural form Characini 

 for a section not formally designated by him as ;i subgenus, and I have felt and still 

 feel inclined to adopt it myself. 



■■The generic name Telrat/onopferus has been erroneously attri))uted to Artedi, who 

 was too good an ichthyologist to have confounded a Telrafjonopieriis (Cuvier) Avith a 

 Tetraijonoptrns {K\&\n, ^' TETpayuvoKTpog, \. e., quadratus aspectu"). Inasmuch as 

 Artedi died in 1735 and the "Missus" in which Klein's name first occurs was pub- 

 lished in 1744, we have another good reason for believing that Artedi had nothing 

 to do with the name. 



