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Genus 648. MENIDIA Bonaparte. 



Menidia Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, Toine III, Pesci, in description of 



Atherina hepsctus p. 91, 1836, no type, Atherina menidia Linnseus 



intended. 

 Ischnomembras Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LV, 1903, 730, 



pi. 42, "Gabun River, Gabun County, West Africa," probably an 



error. 

 Phoxargyrea Fowler, loc. cit., 1903, 732, Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler from 



"India," doubtless an error. 



Subgenus ISCHNOMEMBRAS Fowler. 



1927. Menidia beryllina (Cope). Silverside; Fresh-water silverside. 



Coastwise streams, Massachusetts to Florida and lower Mississippi, 



north to Tennessee. 

 f.Atherinichthys gracilis Giinther, Cat., Ill, 1861, 405, no locality given. 

 Christoma beryllinurn Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 1866, 403, Potomac 



River, near Washington. 

 Menidia audens Hay, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., II, 1882, 64, Memphis, 



Tenn., and Vicksburg, Miss. 

 Ischnomembras gabunensis Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LV, 



1903, 731, pi. 42, Gabon River, West Africa; probably an error. 



1928. Menidia beryllina cerea Kendall. 



Atlantic coast, Massachusetts to South Carolina. 



Menidia beryllina cerea Kendall, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XXVII, 1901, 

 261, Waquoit Bay, Mass. 



1929. Menidia peninsulas (Goode and Bean). 



Florida and Gulf coast, in salt water. 



Chirostoma peninsulae Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., II, 

 1879, 148, Pensacola. 



1930. Menidia peninsulee atrimentis Kendall. 



Florida; South Lake, Lake Monroe, Salt Lake, etc. 



Menidia pcninsulx atrimentis Kendall, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XXVII, 

 1901, 258, South Lake, Fla. 



1931. Menidia menidia (Linnajus). 



Atlantic coast, Cape Hatteras to Florida. 



Atherina menidia Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. XII, 1766, 519, Charleston, 



S. C. 

 Atherina boscii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X, 1835, 



345 (465), Charleston. 

 Menidia dentex Goode and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., V, 1882, 429, 



St. Johns River, Fla. 



1932. Menidia conchorum Hildebrand and Ginsberg. 



Key West, Fla. 



Menidia conchorum Hildebrand and Ginsberg, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 XLII, 1926 (1927), 207, fig. 1, Boca Chica, Key West, Fla. 



1933. Menidia notata (Mitchill). Silversides; Friar; Whitebait. 



Atlantic coast of United States, Nova Scotia to Cape May, intergrading 



south with M. menidia. 

 Atherina notata Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 446, 



New York. 

 Atherina viridescens Mitchill, loc. cit., 447, New York. 

 Phoxargyrea dayi Fowler,. Pxoc. Acafl. Nat. Sci. Phila., LV, 1903, 732, 



pi. 41, "India"; no doubt an error in locality. 



1934. Menidia starksi Meek and Hildebrand. 



Panama. 



Menidia starksi Meek and Hildebrand, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool., 

 XV, 267, PI. XX, fig. 2, Taboga Island, Panama. 



1935. Menidia sardina (Jenkins and Evermann). Pez del rey. 



Gulf of California. 



Atherina sardina Jenkins and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 

 1888, 137, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. 



