108 THE GENERA OF FISHES 



Chirurgus Blainville ; type (perhaps Ch^todon chirurgus Bloch). 



Not seen by us : probably a synonym of Hepatus and Teuthis. 

 Palaeoniscum Blainville, 320 ; type Pal^oniscum frieslebenense 

 Blainville (fossil). 

 Written Pal^oniscus by Agassiz. 

 Palaeothrissum Blainville, 320; type Pal^othrissum macrocephalum 

 Blainville (fossil). 

 Synonym of Pal^oniscum. 

 Palaeorhynchum Blainville, XXVII, 314, 1818; type Pal^orhynchum 



GLARisiANUM Blainville. 

 Palaeobalistum Blainville, 338; type Diodon orbicularis Volta (fossil). 



XCVIII. RAFINESQUE, Description of two new Genera of North 

 American Fishes, Opsanus and Notropis: American Monthly 

 Magazine and Critical Review, January 1818. 



CONSTANTINE SaMUEL RaFINESQUE. 



Opsanus Rafinesque, 203; type Opsanus cerapalus Raf. (Gadus 

 TAU L.). 

 This genus has been usually and wrongly called Batrachus. 



Notropis Rafinesque, 204; type Notropis atherinoides Raf. (Al- 

 BURNUS rubellus Agassiz). 



XCIX. RAFINESQUE, Discoveries in Natural History: American 

 Monthly Magazine, September 1818. 



Glossodon Rafinesque, 354; type Glossodon harengoides Raf. (Hiodon 

 tergisus Le Sueur). 

 A synonym of Hiodon, regarded by Rafinesque as too "similar to Diodon in 

 sound." 



C. RAFINESQUE, Further Discoveries in Natural History: Amer. 

 Monthly Magazine, October 1818. 



Pogostoma Rafinesque, 445 ; type Pogostoma leucops Rafinesque, 

 A myth drawn by Audubon. 



Dinectus Rafinesque, 445 ; type Dinectus truncatus Raf. 

 A mythical sturgeon, drawn by Audubon. 



