New York, October 4, 1917. No. 49 





Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates 



CHANGES IX 



NAMES OF 

 FISHES 



AMERICAN 



A recent survey of the names applied to the 

 genera of fishes shows the necessity of a number of 

 changes from the names adopted by Jordan and 

 Evermann, Fishes of North and Middle America, 

 1898. Among those which most concern students of 

 American Ichthyology are the following: 



Anehoviella Fowler replaces Stole phorus Lace- 

 pede as the name of the great body of tropical ancho- 

 vies. The type of Stoh phorus, as first restricted, was 

 not an anchovy, but a round herring of Japan. 



Bag re Cuvier, by tautonomy, replaces Felichthys 

 and Ailurichihys for the Gaff top-sail cat-fish, Bagre 

 fells (L.) 



Bodianus Bloch, by tautonomy, replaces Harpe 

 Lacepede, while Cephalopholis Bloch & Schneider 

 replaces Bodianus and Enneacentrus. 



Chelon Rose replaces Chaenomugil. 



Corvina Cuvier stands for the group called 

 Pseudosciaena. Cheilotrema and Callaus may be 

 genera distinct from Corvina. 



Clupanodon Lacepede should be restricted to 

 the Asiatic genus called Konosirus. The true sar- 

 dines (S. pilehardus of Europe, and S. ecerulea of 

 California), belong to the genus Sardina Antapa. 

 Those sardines with unstriated opercle, (S. aurita 

 and S. anchovia-pseudohispanica) , comprise the genus 

 Sardinella, called Sardinia by Poey. The Scaled Sar- 



