SEDGWICK & MURCHISON, 1828 125 



CXXXIII (A^ SEDGWICK & MURCHISON, FossU Fishes: Trans. 

 Geol. Soc. (2), III, 1828. 



Adam Sedgwick and Roderic Impey Murchison. 



Dipterus Sedgwick & Murchison, 143; type Dipterus valenciennesi 

 Sedgwick & Murchison. 



CXXXIV. CUVIER, Le Regno Animal, distribue d'Aprts son Organi- 

 sation: Edition II, Vol. II (Fishes etc.), 1829. 



Georges Cuvier. 



A work of great importance, constituting with the first edition in 

 1817 the foundation of modern Ichthyology. The classification of fishes 

 by Cuvier was for the first time solidly based on the true basis of Com- 

 parative .Xnatomy. 



.According to Henry Weed Fowler {Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, 

 264) the first, second, fourth and fifth fascicles of the second volume 

 (Fishes etc.) of the Second Edition of the Rcgne Anitnal api)eared in 

 January, February and March 1829. The third was delayed until about 

 July. The third and fourth volumes of the Histoire Naturelle des Pois- 

 sons appeared later in the same year, 1829. These facts <lo not affect 

 nomenclature, so far as we observe. We are indebted to Mr. I'owler for 

 the pagination of the Rtgne Animal, our two copies being reprints. 



Accrina Luvicr, 144 (Cuv. & Val., Ill, 3) ; type Perca cernua L. 



Identical with Cernua Sclia;fer , Acf.hina Guldenstadt, Percis Klein, and 

 GYMNfXTF.piiALUS Bloch. The cliRibility of these earlier names awaits decision. 



Rypticus Cuvier, II, 144 (Cuv. & Val., Ill, 60) ; type Anthias sapo- 

 NACEUS I'.loch. 



More correctly written Rhypticus. 

 Pentaceros Cuvier, 145 (Cuv. & Val., 111. 30); type Pentaceros 

 ( APENSIS C. & V. 



This name has been regarded as preoccupied by Pkntacekos Schultc, 1760, a 

 star-fish.* It has been replaced by QuiNguARiu.s Jordan. This ch.iiige may not 

 b« necessary. According to Prof. Walter K. Fisher Pentaceros of Schulte is not 

 properly a generic name but a quasi-vernacular. 



Pentaceros Schroter, 1782, a name for the same animal is doubtfully tenable. 



•Dr. Fisher (Smitkson. Afijc. Coll., no. 1799, 1908) explains that Schulte 

 ("Vtrsteincrte Sceslemt") following the pre-Linnxan work of Linck (/V Stfl- 



