392 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Sjfbgenus DIAPTERUS Ranzaiii. 



Diaptet-HS Rauzani, Nov. Comment. Bonon., v, 1841, 340 {auratus). 



1780. Gerres aureolus .Jordan & Gilbert. 



Panama; only orij^inal type known. 



Gerres aureolus Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. IT. S. Fish Com., i, 1881 (1882), 328, 

 Panama. 



1781. Gerres peruvianas Cuvier & Valenciennes. Mojarra de las Aletas AmarilJas. 



West coast of tropical America; Mazatlan; Salina Cruz; Chiapas; 



Panama; Peru. 

 Gerres peruiianus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. PoLss., vi, 467, 1830, 



Payta, northern Peru. 



1782. Gerres olisthostoma Goode & Bean. Irish Fompano; Mutton-fish. 



West Indies, north to southern Florida. 



Gerres olisthostoma Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 423, Indian 

 River, Florida. 



Sul)g;enus GERRES Cuvier. 



1783. Gerres brevimanus Giinther. 



Pacific coast of tropical America; only original type known. 

 Gerres brevimanus Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend. 1864, 152, Chiapas. 



1784. Gerres lineatus (Humboldt). Mojarra China. 



West coast of Mexico; Acapulco; Mazatlan; San Bias; Chiapas. 

 Smaris lineatus Humboldt, Observ. Zool., ii, 185, pi. 46, 1807-1834, Acapulco. 



1785. Gerres brasilianus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Poiao. 



Cuba to Bahia. 



Gerres hrasilianus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 458, 1830, 

 Brazil; Porto Rico. 



1786. Gerres embryx Jordan & Starks. 



Coast of South Carolina. 



Gerres enihryx Jordan & Starks, in Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and 

 Middle America, 1896, South Carolina. 



1787. Gerres plumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes. Mojarra. 



Atlantic coast of tropical America and West Indies; Havana; Porto Rico; 



San Domingo; Jamaica; Pernambuco; Bahia; Aspmwall; Guatemala. 

 Gerres plumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vi, 452, 1830, 



Antilles; Porto Rico. 



1788. Gerres mexicanus Steindachner. 



Rio Teapa, Mexico. 



Gerres mexicanus Steindachner, Ueber eine Neue Gerres-Art aus Mexico, 

 Verb. K. K. Geo. Wien., xiii, 383, 1863, Rio Teapa, Mexico. 



Family CLVI. KYPHOSIDiE. The Rudder-Fishes. 



Genus 566. GIRELLA Gray. 



Girclla Gray, Illustrations of Indiau Zoology, about 1840 {punctata). 



1789. Girella nigricans (Ayres). California Bhufish. 



Coast of southern California, from Monterey to Cape San Lucas. 

 Camurina nigricans Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1861, 81, fig. 22, California. 



Genus 567. DOYDIXODON Valenciennes. 



Dojidixodon Valenciennes, Voyage de la Venus, v, 318, 1855 {freminvillei). 



1790. Doydixodon freminvillei Valenciennes. 



Galapngoa Islands and coast of Peru. 



Doydixodon freminvillei Valenciennes, Voyage Venus, 323, pi. 5, 1855, Gala- 

 liagos Islands. 



