H ECKEL, 1841 209 



Hieroptera Fleming, XXXI, 236; orthotype H. abredonensis Fleming (a monstrous 

 form of Raja clavata fide Gill). A synonym of Raja L. 



'271. HECKEL (1841). Ueber eine neue Gattung (Aulopyge hugeli) von SUss- 

 zvasserfische in Europa; aus einen Schreiben an den Akademiker Dr. Brandt. 

 Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb., VIII. 



JoHANN Jakob Meckel. 

 Aulopyge (Brandt) Heckel, I, 1021 ; orthotype A. hugeli Heckcl (also in Russcg- 

 ger's Reiscn, p. 1021). 



272. HOGG (1841). (Protomclus and Amphibichthys.) Am. Mag. Nat. Hist., VII. 



John Hogg. 



Protomelus Hogg, VII, 359; orthotype Lepidosiren annectens Owen. A syno- 

 nym of Protopterus Owen. 



Amphibichthys Hogg, 362; orthotype Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger. A synonym 

 of Lepidosiren Fitzinger. 



273. LOWE (1841). Synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira, etc. Trans. Zool. Soc. 



London, II. 



Richard Thomas Lowe. 



Aplurus Lowe, II, 180; orthotype A. simplex Lowe. A synonym of Ruvettus 



Cocco. 

 Prometheus Lowe, II, 181 ; orthotype Gempylus prometheus Guv. & Val. Name 

 preoccupied; replaced by Promethichthys Gill (1893). 



274. MILLER (1841). The Old Red Sandstone; or New Walks in an Old Field. 



Edinburgh. 



Hugh Miller (1802-1856). 

 Pterichthys (Agassiz) Miller, XXII; orthotype P. milleri Ag. (fossil). Name 

 preoccupied — Swainson (1839) ; replaced by Pterichthyodes Blkr. (1839 and 

 by Millerichthys S. A. Miller, 1892. 



275. MUNSTER (1841). (Asterodon.) Beitrage zur Petrefaktenkunde, IV. 



GeORG MiJNSTER. 



Asterodon Miinster, IV, 140; orthot3'pe \. eronni Miinster (fossil). Probably 

 identical with Colobodus Ag. and of earlier date. 



276. NARDO (1841). Proposisione per la forma.zioni di un nuovo generi di pesci, 

 intitolato Brachyochirtis. Ann. Sci. Reale Lombardo-Veneto, Padova. 

 Giovanni Domenico Nardo. 

 Brachyochirus Nardo I ; orthotype Gobius aphya Risso = Gobius minutus L. 

 A section of Gobius; same as Pomatoschistus Gill (1862). Perhaps to be 

 regarded as preoccupied by Brachyrus and Brachirus of Swainson (1839) of 

 similar etymology. 



277 OWEN (1841). On the Structure of Fossil Teeth from the Central of Corn- 

 stone Division of the Old Red Sandstone, Indicative of a New Genus of Fishes, 

 or Fish-like Batrachia, etc. Micr. Journ., I. 

 Richard Owen. 



Dendrodus Owen, I, 4; logotype D. biporcatus Owen (fossil). 



Sphyraenodus (Agassiz) Owen, 129; orthotype S. priscus Ag. (fossil). Names 

 only; validated by Agassiz in 1844. 



