22 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



Channa Gronow, 135; type Channa orientalis Bloch & Schneider, 

 1801 (Channa Gronow). 

 This monotypic genus was accepted by Bloch & Schneider, 1801, and Scopoli. 

 Gasteropelecus Gronow, 135; type Clupea sternicla L. (Gastero- 

 PELECus Gronow). 

 Monotypic. The name was revived by Pallas in 1769. 

 Leptocephalus Gronow, 135 ; type Leptocephalus morrisi Gmelin, the 

 larva of Mur^na conger L. (Leptocephalus Gronow). 

 This name, based on a larval conger, and revived by Scopoli in 1777, is held 

 to replace Conger Houttviyn, 1764, and of Cuvier, 1817, given to the adult of the 

 same species. As Leptocephalus has been in use more than a century as the col- 

 lective name of the peculiar translucent expanded larvae of the Conger and other 

 eels, it would be well to restrict its use to those forms, reserving the genus to 

 which the type belongs, the earliest name given to the adult fish, Conger Houttuyn. 



Gymnogaster Gronow, 136; type Trichiurus lepturus L. (Gymno- 

 gaster Gronow). 

 Equivalent to Trichiurus L. Monotypic. 

 Pteraclis Gronow, 136; type Coryph^na velifera Pallas, 1770 (Pter- 

 ACLis pinnata Gronow) 1777. 

 The name Pteraclis was used by Gronow, 1772. It is monotypic and unques- 

 tioned. 



VI. LINN.EUS, Museum Adolphi-Frederki, II, 1764. 



Carolus Linn^us. 



Cepola Linnasus, 63; type Cepola rubescens L. = C. tmnik L. (also 

 in Syst. Nat., 1766.) 



VII. HOUTTUYN, Natuurlike Historic volgens den Hecr Linnwus, 



1764. 



Martin Houttuyn. 



This work we have not seen. Mr. Garman (in lit.) quotes: 

 Conger Houttuyn, VII, 103; type Mur^na conger L. 



This name might well be retained for the Conger eel, leaving Leptocephalus 

 to its time-honored special use as a designation for the larval forms of Conger and 

 similar eels. 

 Torpedo Houttuyn, VII, 453; type (not named) Raja torpedo L. 



Apparently this fixes the name Torpedo on the Electric Ray. 



