36 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



of Gronow was published in 1763. His names have been accepted as 

 eligible by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 



In this paper we give a list of these genera of Klein together with 

 the Linnsean type, each as understood or as indicated by the present 

 writer. In deciding on the type, the writer has been materially aided 

 by the possession of a copy of Klein's Historia Piscium Naturalis, which 

 was once the property of his commentator, Dr. Johann Julius Walbaum 

 of Greifswald, and which contains profuse annotations in Walbaum's 

 own handwriting. 



Dr. Walbaum himself published in 1792 {Petri lArtedi sued Genera 

 Piscium, 589-587) a classified record of the genera of Klein, but without 

 actually accepting these as part of the System. Later Walbaum printed 

 an Index to all these early names of various authors, as Ichthyologia 

 Enodata siz'e Index Rerum (Leipzig, 1793). In this Index the generic 

 and other names used by previous writers are arranged in alphabetical 

 order with indication of the Linnaaan synonymy. This again does not, in 

 the view of the Zoological Commission (Opinion 21 ), involve the accept- 

 ance of any of these names. A reprint of Klein's Historia Piscium 

 Naturalis was published, with notes by Walbaum, in 1802. 



In the Gesellschaft Schauplatc Klein's names are frankly adopted, 

 and the chief serious objection to be raised is that the species are named 

 polynomially. We here omit those names in the Schauplats, as Acipen- 

 SER, Cyprinus, Xiphias, etc., which had been used by Linnaeus and were 

 already accepted in the System with the same significance. We are in- 

 debted to Mr. Carman for the verification of the list and for the insertion 

 of page references. 



Illustrations of the method of the elliptical and disorderly Schauplats 

 are the following. In vol. I, p. 918, 1777, we read: 



"Botte. Rhombus, ein Kleinisches Fischgeschleclit, welches Linne. 

 Pleuronectes G. 163, Miiller Seitenschwimmer, Richter Hntten nennt," 

 etc. Description follows. 



In III, p. 512, we find: "Greete, Kleinische, eine Art platteise, But- 

 ten, Richter: s(iehe) Botte, Rhombus, des Kleins und unsern Artikel 

 Th. T, s. 918 ; desgleichen h'lunder. Passer 4 des Kleins und unsern Artikel 

 Th. Ill, s. 151" etc. 



"Passer 4" is the species called "Passer asper s(eu), squamosus 

 Rondelet. This species is Pleuronectes limanim L. With (eight) 

 other si)ecies named polynomially, it is set forth in the Schatiplatc, after 

 Klein. The (|uotations from Midler probably refer lo the Niirnberg 

 Edition of the Systetna Nalurcc, published in German by Professor Philip 



