ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO PART I. 



1758 



1. LINN^US (1758). Systcma Naturae. Ed. X, Vol. 1. 



Carl Linne (Carolus Linn^us). (1707-1778.) 



Trigla Linnteus, 300 ; logotype T. gurnardus L., as restricted by Kaup, 187v3, Ap- 

 parently this sliould replace the later restriction to T. lyra L. of Jordan & 

 Gilbert, 1883, this species being type of Lyrichthys Kaup. 



Mormyrus Linnaeus, 327; logotype M. caschive Hasselquist, as restricted by Gill. 

 (Not M. cyprinoides L., as stated in part 1, page IS; this species is the type 

 of Marcusenius Gill.) 



Tetraodon Linnseus, 332; logotype T. line.\tus L. I am compelled to revise my 

 judgment, as given in part I of the Genera of Fishes, page 15, in which I 

 present the reasons for regarding T. testudineus L. as the type of Tetraodon. 

 This judgment is based on Bleeker's restriction of the genus in 1865. I find 

 that an earlier restriction was made by Bonaparte in the Fauna Italica, about 

 1841, "Tetraodon lineatus Bloch" being taken as type following a suggestion 

 of Swainson. Bloch's account includes the synonymy and description of T. 

 LINEATUS L., although the figure he offers may have been based on an exam- 

 ple of T. STELLATUS. 



In this view of the case, the type of Tetraodon should be T. lineatus, 

 a fresh-water species of the Nile, with which the numerous marine species 

 called OvoiDES (Arothron) may not be congeneric. According to Dr. Gill, 

 the type of Tetraodon is distinguished from the Pacific species known as 

 OvoiDES by the form of the frontal bones, a matter which needs further 

 elucidation. 



In this view the name Spheroiues should stand, as used by Jordan and 

 Evermann, for the allies of T. testudineus L. 



1764 



7. HOUTTUYN (1764). Naturlikc historic volgens den Heer Linnceus. 



Martin Houttuyn. 



Conger Houttyn, VII, 103, and Torpedo Houttuyn, VII, 453, as quoted in Genera 



of Fishes, page 22, are not presented by Houttuyn as generic names, and the 



reference to them should be canceled. 



In a persona! letter dated August 23, 1918, Mr. C. Davies Sherborn says: 

 "Torpedo is the trivial Linna^an name of the species Raja torpedo and Con- 

 ger is the trivial LinncCan part of the species name Mur.ena conger. Neither 

 name is used scientifically nor is there any intention on Houttuyn's part 

 to do more than quote the Linnsean term for the fish he describes as 'Kramp- 

 fisch' and 'Conger'." 



The record of this work of Houttuyn should therefore be erased as hav 

 ing no relation to scientific nomenclature. 



1767 



9. MtJLLER (1767). Delineationes Naturcr. II, 141. 

 Philip Ludwig Statius Muller (1725-1776). 

 Mr. Sherborn informs me that the generic names Acus, page 141, and 



