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XL\ . l'.L(.)L'H, Nalurgeschicltte dcr AusUindischen 1-ische, Vlll. 1794; 



IX, 1795- 

 Mark Elieser Block. 



Platystacus I'.loch, VIII, 52, 1794; type Platystacus cotylephorus 



lUoch, as usually restricted. 

 Ophicephalus Bloch. X'lll. 137, 1794; type Ophicephalus punctatus 

 Bloch. 

 Unquestioned. Corrected by later writers to Ophiocephalus. 

 Sphagebranchus Bloch, IX, 88, 1795; type Sphagebranchus rostratus 

 Clocli. 

 Monotypic. 

 Gymnothorax Bloch, IX, 83, 1795; type Gvmnothorax mur>cna Bloch 



= MuR.«NA HELENA L. 

 A synonym of Mur«na L. Gunther, Cat. Fish, VIII, p. 100, 1870, restricts 

 the names to allies of Mur^na afra = Lycodontis McClelland, an arrangement 

 apparently not defensible, as Gymnothorax was plainly a substitute name for 

 MuiLXNA, and must retain the same type, Muii«na Helena L. 



Synbranchus Bloch, IX, 86, 1795: type Symbranchus marmoratus 

 Bloch. 

 Name corrected by later writers to Symbranchus. 

 Platycephalus Bloch. IX, 96, 1795; type Platycephalus spathula 

 Bloch = CoTTUs INSII>^^TOR Forskal = Callionymits indicu.s L. 

 Unquestioned. 

 Gastrobranchus Bloch, XII, 51, 1797; type Gastroiiranciius c<ecus 



Bloch = MyXINE GLUTINOSA L. 

 A synonym of Myxine L. 

 Acanthonotus Bloch, XII, 113, 1797; type Acanthonotus nasus 

 Bloch, 1797= Notacanthus ciiEMNiTZi Bloch. 1787. 

 A needless substitute name for Notacanthus. 



XLVI. FABRICIl'S, Beskrk'else over to sieldne Griinlandskc Fiskf: 

 Skrivt. Naturhist. Sclskab. Kjobenhavn. I7()3. II. 



Otto Fabricius. 



Campylodon Fabricius, 12; type Campylodon Oahruii Rcinhanlt). 

 1838. 

 A synonym of Notacanthus Bloch. Mononomial and monotypic. 



