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Family 218. CIRRHITID^ 



Genus 959. CIRRHITUS lacepede. 



Cirrhitus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, 3 (C. maculalus Lacepede). 

 Cirrhitichthys Giinther, Cat., II, 1860, 73; not of Bleeker. 

 Cirrhites of authors; revised spelling. 



2781. Cirrhitus rivulatus (Valenciennes). 



Cape San Lucas to the Revillagigedos and Galapagos Islands. 

 Cirrhites rivulatus Valenciennes, Voy. V^nus, Poiss., 1855, 309, pi. 3, 



fig. 1, Galapagos Islands. 

 Cirrhitus betaurus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIV, 1862, 259, 



Cape San Lucas; young. 



Family 219. ANTIGONIID^ 



Genus 960. ANTIGONIA Lowe. 



Aniigonia Lowe, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1843, 85 (A. capros Lowe). 

 Caprophonus Miiller and Troschel, HoriB Ichth., Ill, 1845, 28, pi. 5, 

 fig. 1 (C. aurora Miiller and Troschel). 

 . Hypsinotus Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Poiss., 1844, 84 

 {H. rubescens Giinther). 



2782. Antigonia capros Lowe. 



Tropical Atlantic, in rather deep water. 



Aniigonia capros Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1843, 85, Madeira. 

 Caprophonus aurora Miiller and Troschel, Horse Ichthyologicae, III, 

 1845, p. 28, pi. 5, fig. 1, Barbados. 



Family 220. SCORPID^. Halfmoon fishes 



Genus 961. MEDIALUNA Jordan and Fesler. 



Medial una Jordan and Fesler, Rept. U. S. Fish Com., XVII, 1889-1891, 



536 {Scorpis cnliforniensis Steindachner). 



2783. Medialuna calif orniensis (Steindachner). Medialuna; Halfmoon. 



Coast of southern California from Point Conception southward to 



Ccdros Island. 

 Scorpis californiensis Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., Ill, 1875, 19, San 



Diego. 



Suborder SQUAMIPENNES 



Family 221. EPHIPPID^ 



Genus 962. CHiETODIPTERUS lacepede. 



Chxtodipterus Lac6p6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 503 (Chxtodon 



plumieri Bloch = C hselodon faber Broussonet). 

 Parephippus Gill. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XIII, 1861, 165 (Ephip- 



pus zonatus Girard). 



2784. Cheetodipterus faber (Broussonet). Angelfish; Spadefish; Moonf.sh; 



Tripletail; Three-banded sheephead; Three-tailed porgy. 

 West Indies, Cape Cod to Rio Janeiro, south Atlantic coast. 

 Faber niarinus fere quadratus (the pilotfish) Sloane, Jamaica, II, 1793, 



290, pi. 251, Jamaica. 

 Chselodon faber Broussonet, Ichth., V, Dec. 1, 1782, pi. 4, Jamaica. 

 Zeus quadratus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 1225, Jamaica; after 



Sloane. 

 Chsetodon plumieri Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, III, 1787, 104, 



Martinique. 

 Selene quadrangularis Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1803, 564, 



Jamaica; after Sloane. 

 Chff'todon oviformis Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. N. Y., I, 1815, 247, 



pi. 5, fig. 4, New York. 

 Ephippus gigas Cuvier, Rdgne Anim , ed. 2, II, 1829, 191, America. 



2785. Chsetodipterus zonatus (Girard). 



Pacific coast of America, from San Diego to Panama; common south- 

 ward. 



Ephippus zonatus Girard, Pac. R. R. Surv., X, pt. 4, Fishes, 1858, 110, 

 San Diego, Calif. 



