108 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



Chirurgus Blainville; type (perhaps Ch^todon chirurgus Bloch). 



Not seen by us : probably a synonym of Hepatus and Teuthis. 

 Palaeoniscum Blainville, 320 ; type Pal^oniscum frieslebenense 

 Blainville (fossil). 

 Written Pal^oniscus by Agassiz. 

 Palaeothrissum Blainville, 320; type Pal^othrissum macrocephalum 

 Blainville (fossil). 

 Synonym of Pal^oniscum. 

 Palaecrhynchum Blainville, XXVII, 314, 1818; type Pal^orhynchum 



glarisianum Blainville. 

 Palaeobalistum Blainville, 338; type Diodon orbicularis Volta (fossil). 



XCVIII. RAFINESQUE, Description of two new Genera of North 

 American Fishes, Opsanus and Notropis : American Monthly 

 Magazine and Critical Review, January 1818. 



Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. 



Opsanus Rafinesque, 203; type Opsanus cerapalus Raf. (Gadus 



TAU L.). 

 This genus has been usually and wrongly called Batrachus. 

 Notropis Rafinesque, 204; type Notropis atherinoides Raf. (Al- 

 BURNUS rubellus Agassiz). 



XCIX. RAFINESQUE, Discoveries in Natural History: American 

 Monthly Magazine, September 1818. 



Glossodon Rafinesque, 354; type Glossodon harengoides Raf. (Hiodon 

 TERGisus Le Sueur). 

 A synonym of Hiodon, regarded by Rafinesque as too "similar to Uiodun in 

 sound." 



C. RAFINESQUE, Further Discoveries in Natural History: Amer. 

 Monthly Magazine, October 1818. 



Pogostoma Rafinesque, 445 ; type Pogostoma leucops Rafinesque. 



A myth drawn by Audulion. 

 Dinectus Rafinesque, 445; type niNKcrus trunc.xtus Raf. 

 A mythical sturgeon, drawn by Audubon. 



