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Genus 621. MYRIPRISTIS Cuvier. 



Myripristis Cuvier, Regne Anim., ed. 2, II, 1829, 150 (M. jacobus 



Cuvier and Valenciennes). 

 Rhamphoberyx Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 817 (R. 



poecilopus Gill); young. 

 Myripristes of authors; altered spelling. 

 Mynopristis of authors; altered spelling. 



1837. Myripristis jacobus Cuvier and Valenciennes. Frhre Jacques; Candil, 



West Indies to Brazil; common. 



Myripristis jacobus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 



1829, 121 (162), Martinique. 

 Rhinoberyx chryseus Cope, Proc. Amer. Phil. See, XIV, 1871, 464, St. 



Croix Island. 



1838. Myripristis occidentalis (Gill). 



West coast of America, from Cape San Lucas to Panama; Galapagos; 



Cocos Island. 

 Myriopristis occidentalis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 



87, Cape San Lucas. 

 Rhamphoberyx leucopus Gill, loo. cit., 88, Cape San Lucas; immature. 



1839. Myripristis pcBcilopus (Gill). 



West coast of America, from Cape San Lucas to Panama. 



Rhamphoberyx poecilopus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 

 87, Cape San Lucas; immature example. 

 Genus 622. HOLOTRACHYS Giinther. 



Holotrachys Giinther, Jour. Mus. Godeffroy, Band I, 1873, 93 (Myri- 

 pristes lima Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



1840. Holotrachys lima (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



South Seas, east to Hawaii and Cocos Island. 



Myripristis lima Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 

 1831, 493, lie de France. 



Myripristes humilis Kner and Steindachner, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 LIV, 1866, 3.57, pi. 1, fig. 1, Samoa. 

 Genus 623. HOLOCENTRUS Bloch. Squirrel fishes; Soldier jishes. 



Holocentrus Gronow, Zoophyl., 1763, 65; nonbinomial. 



Holocentrus Bioch, Naturgeschich. Ausland. Fische, IV, 1790, 61 (H. 

 sogo Bloch). 



Holocentrum Cuvier, and of most authors; amended spelling. 



Rhynchichthys Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831, 

 503 (R. pelamidis Cuvier and Valenciennes); young. 



Rhinoberyx Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 237 (Rhyn- 

 chichthys hrachyrhynchus Bleeker); larval form. 



1841. Holocentrus ascensionis ^' (Osbeck). Matajuelo; Squirrelfish; Soldado; 



Welchman. 

 Islands of the Atlantic and northward from St. Helena and Ascension 



Island to Florida and Cuba. 

 IPerca ascensionis Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 1757; reprinted as Reise 



Ost-Ind. China, 1765, 388, Ascension Island; reprint of a pre- 



Linnsean paper, hence inehgible. 

 tBodianus pentacanthus Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fische, IV, 1790, 40, pi. 225, 



Brazil; after Sagnaraca of Marcgrave. 

 IHolocentrus sogo Bloch, loc. cit., 61, pi. 232, Africa. 

 Scixna rubra Schneider, Ed. Bloch, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 82; after 



Catesby. 

 Amphiprion matejuelo Bloch and Schneider, Syst. loth., 1801, 206, 



Cuba; after Parra. 

 IBodiamis jaguar Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1802, 286, Brazil. 

 t Holocentrum longipinne Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 



Ill, 1829, 138 (185), Brazil; Martinique; Porto Rico; St. Thomas; 



San Domingo; Habana. 

 Holocentrus striatus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, 1854, 173, Antilles. 

 Holocentrus rostralus Gronow, loc. cit., 173, near the Equator. 



• The specific name of the common mataguelo of Cuba is still wholly uncertain if the two forms (the 

 one from Cuba, the other from Brazil) are really distinct. The earliest specific name, atcenaionia, is appar- 

 ently ineligible, occurring in reprints of a pre-Linnaean paper. The pertinence of most of llie other names 

 is more or less uncertain. Uere, as elsewhere where no olTicial decision has been made by tlio International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, we follow the rule of not changing current nomenclature unless, 

 as Id matters of priority, the case Is reasonably dear. 



