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Solenostomus Lacepede, V, 360, 1803 ; type Fistularia paradoxa 

 Pallas. 



Monotypic. Not Solenostomus Gronow nor of Klein. 

 Hydrargira Lacepede, V, 378, 1803; type Hydrargira swampina Lace- 

 pede (FuNDULUs MAjALis Walbaum). 



Usually written Hydrargyra. Monotypic. Not separable from Fundulus. 

 Stolephorus Lacepede, V, 381, 1803; type Atherina japonica Hout- 

 tuyn (Spratelloides argyrot^enia Bleeker). 



Restriction of Jordan & Evermann, 1896. 



The first species named by Lacepede, Atherina japonica Houttuyn, was un- 

 known to him, and very scantily and incorrectly described by its discoverer. Sev- 

 eral authors — Bleeker, Jordan & Evermann — have assumed this species to be the 

 type, and that it was congeneric with the second species named, from which La- 

 cepede drew up his generic description and of which he gave a figure. 



Study of the fauna of Nagasaki shows that no species of the modern genus 

 Stolephorus has been yet found there and that the Atherina japonica of Hout- 

 tuyn is most likely a description from rough notes or from memory of Spratel- 

 loides argyrot^nia Bleeker. Atherina japonica was the first species to be for- 

 mally named as type of Stolephorus. It would have been more convenient to 

 assume the one species known to Lacepede to be his type, reverting to the system 

 of Bleeker, who first acted on this supposition but who named no type formally. 

 In that case Stolephorus would become the equivalent of Anchoviella Fowler, 

 191 1. Menidia Browne, if available, would replace both. But it is necessary here 

 as elsewhere to recognize the first formally stated type. If this is regarded as 

 identifiable Stolephorus replaces Spratelloides. 



Mugiloides Lacepede, V, 393, 1803; type Mugiloides chilensis Lace- 

 pede (Esox CHILENSIS MoHna). 

 Replaces Pinguipes Cuv. & Val. 

 Chanos Lacepede, V, 395, 1803 ; type Changs arabicus Lacepede 



(MUGIL CHANOS L.). 

 Monotypic. 

 Mugilomorus Lacepede, V, 397, 1803; type Mugilomorus anna-caro- 

 LiNA Lacepede (Elops saurus L.). 

 Synonym of Elops L. 

 Polydactylus Lacepede, V, 419, 1803; type Polydactylus plumieri 

 Lacepede (Polynemus virginicus L.). 

 As understood by us at present, a synonym of Polynemus L. 

 Buro (Commerson) Lacepede, V, 421, 1803; type Buro brunneus 

 Lacepede (Teuthis hexagonatus Bleeker). 

 Monotypic. Same as Siganus. 

 Mystus Lacepede, V, 466, 1803 ; type Mystus clupeoides Lacepede 

 (Clupea mystus L.), a species of Coilia Gray. 

 The name Mystus is preoccupied. 



