CHECK LIST OF FlSHi3S 493 



4010. Canthidermis maculatus (Bloch). Ocean turhot. 



West Indies. 



Balistes maculatus Bloch, Nat. Ausl. Fisch., II, 1786, 25, West Indies. 



Balistes americanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1789, 1473, America; after 



Gronow. 

 Balistes macropterus Walbaum, Artedi Pise, III, 1792. 465, America. 

 Balistes rufus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, ed. Gray, 1854, 36, American 



oceans. 

 Balistes longus Gronow, loc. cit., 1854, American oceans. 

 Balistes melanopterus Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, XIV, 1870, 478, 



Darien. 



4011. Canthidermis willughbeii (Lay and Bennett). 



Pacific coast of Mexico. 



Balistes willughbeii Lav and Bennett, Zoology Beechev's Voyage, 

 1839, 68, pi. 21, fig. 2', Acapulco, Mexico. 



Genus 1433. XANTHICHTHYS Kaup. 



Xnnthiclithijs Kaup, in Ricliardson, Enc. Brit., ed. XII, 1856, 313 



{Bali.-ite-s curassavicus Gmelin). 



4012. Xanthichthys ringens (Linnaeus). Cocuyo. 



West Indies and southward, recorded from Mauritius. 

 Balistes ringens Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 329, no locality. 

 Cucuyo Parra, Dif. Piezas, etc., Cuba, 1787, 19, Habana; after Linnaeus. 

 Balistes curassavicus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 1472, Curagao. 

 Balistes notatus Gronow, Cat. Fishes, ed. Gray, 1854, 36, both Indies. 

 Balistes nitidus Gronow, loc. cit., 36, American oceans. 

 Balistes cicatricosus Poey, Memorias, II, 1861, 327, Cuba. 

 Balistes heckeli von Miiller, Ileiscn in Vereinigten Staaten, Canada 

 und Mexico, I, 1864, 182, Mexico. 



4013. Xanthichthys lineopunctatus (Hollard). 



Panama; Pacific coast of Mexico to East Indies; taken at San Diego. 

 Balistes lineopunctatus Hollard. Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 4, I, 1854, 65, 



Bourbon Island. 

 Balistes mento Jordan and Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1881, 228 



Clarion Island of the Revillagigedo group. 



Genus 1434. MELICHTHYS Swainson. 



Mclichthys Swainson, Class. Anini., II, 1S39, 325 {Balistes ringens 

 \i\och— Balistes huniva Lac<'>perle) . 



4014. Melichthys piceus (Poey). Galafale; Black oldwife; Calafate. 



We.st Indies and southward. 



IBalistes nigra Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 1757, 295, Ascension Island; 



pre-Linnajan. 

 Galafale Parra, Dif. Piezas, etc., 1787, 18, Habana. 

 Balistes piceus Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, ISO, Cuba. 



4015. Melichthys radula (Solandcr). 



East Indies, Clarion and Socorro Islands; Cocos Island. 



Balistes radula Solander, in Richardson, Vov. H. M. S. Samaranq, 



Fishes, 1848, 21. 

 Melichthys hispinosus Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XIII, 1890, 125, 



Clarion and Socorro Islands of the Revillagigedo group. 



Family 297. MONACANTHID.*. Fileflshes 



Genus 1435. CANTHERINES Swainson. 



Cantherines Swaiii.son, Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, 327 (Canlherines nasutus 



iiv,-aiT\tion= Balistes sandwichcnsis Quoy and Gaimard). 

 Pseudomonacanlhus Bleeker, loc. cit., 12 {Monncanthus macrurus 



Bleoker). 

 Liomonacanthus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdskr., Ill, 1866, 13 {Monacanthus 



pardalis Ruppell). 



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