84 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



Gasteracanthus Pallas, 228; type Gasteracanthus cataphractus 

 Pallas. 

 Equivalent to Gasterosteus L. 



Coracinus Pallas, 256; type Coracinus chalcis Pallas (Sci^na nigra 

 Bloch). 

 Equivalent to Corvina Cuvier, 1829. Not Coracinus Gronow, which is DiP- 

 TERODON Cuvier. 



Lebius (Steller Ms.) Pallas, 279; type Labrax superciliosus Pallas, 

 "Lebius, Chirus vel Labrax Steller, Mss. Obs. Ichthyol." 

 These three names are indicated in Steller's unprinted manuscripts as words 

 from which choice could be made. 



Chirus (Steller Ms.) Pallas, 279; type Labrax superciliosus Pallas. 



Like the preceding synonym of Labrax or Hexagrammos. 

 Plagyodus (Steller Ms.) Pallas, 383; type Plagyodus Steller (Alep- 

 iSAURus ^scuLAPius Bean). 



Equivalent to Alepisaurus Lowe, 1833, the name used by Steller only in an 

 oblique case, "Plagyodontem" and without specific name. 



LXXVL LEACH, Observations on the genus Squalus, 1812. 

 William E. Leach. 

 Mustelus Leach, 62 ; type Squalus mustelus L, 



LXXVIL MONTAGU, Wernerian Museum. I, 1812. 



George Montagu. 



Xipotheca Montagu, I, 82; type Xipotheca tetradens Montagu 

 Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen). 

 A synonym of Lepidopus. 



LXXVin. FISCHER, Zoognosia, Tabulis Synopticus Illustrata, Edition 



HI, vol. I, 1813. 



GoTTHELF Fischer. 



A series of Analytical Keys, leading to genera only. 



Histrio Fischer, 70, 78; type (not named) Lophius histrio L., by 

 tautonomy. 

 Diagnosis erroneous, by misprint "corpus depressum" instead of "corpus com- 

 pressum." Has precedence over Pterophryne Gill and Pterophrynoides Gill. 



