170 OSTEOLOGY OF MUR^NID^ GILL. 



GENERA OF MURiBNIDiB. 



MYROCONGRINyE. 



(Doubtfully murjenoid.) 



1. Myroconger Giinther Cat. Fishes B. M., V. 8, p. 93, 1870. 

 Type M. compreasus Giinther. 



MUR^NIN^. 



1. MUR^NA Linti. 



Type M. helena Linn. 



2. SiDERA Eaup, Cat. Ap. Fish, B. M., p. 70, 1856 ; Jordan 4' Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., V. 6, p. 209, 1883. 

 Type S.picta (Ahl). 



3. Pythonichthys Poetj, Repertorio Fis. Nat. de Cuba, v. 2, p. 264, 1868. 



Type P. sanguineus (Poey). 



4. Priodontophis Kaup, N. alahnl. Fische Hamburger Mus., 1859; BleeTcer, Atlas 



Ich. lud. N^erland., V. 4, p. 74, 1864. 

 Type P. ocellatns Ag. 



5. EURYMYCTERA Eaup, Cat. Ap. Fish. B. M., p. 72, 1856. 



Type E. schismatorhynchus (Bleeker). 



6. Enchelycore Eaup, Cat. Apod. Fish B. M., p. 73, 1856. 



Type E. nigricans (Bonnaterre). 



7. Strophiodon McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist., V. 5, p. 215? 1844 ; Sleeker, 



Atlas Ich. Ind. N^erland., V. 4, p. 108, 1864. 

 Type S. sathete Ham. Buch. 



8. Thyrsoidea Eaup, Cat. Apod. Fish B. M., p. 73, 1856; Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. 



N^erland., v. 4, p. 110, 1864. 

 Type T. macrurus Bleeker. 



9. RHINOMUR.ENA Gamian, Bull. Essex Inst., V. 20, p. 114, 1888. 



Type B. quwsita Garmau. 



10. Echidna Eorster, "Echirid. h. n. 81," Walbaum, Artedi Gen. Pise, p. 69.5, 1792; 



Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. N6erland., p. 77, 1864 = Poecilophis Eaup, Cat. Apod. 

 Fish B. M., p. 98, 1856. 

 Type E. nehulosa (Ahl). 



11. MuR^NOBLENNA Lacepedc, Hist. Nat. Poissons, v. 5, p. 652, 1803 ; Jordan, Proc, 



U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 5, pp. 575, 576, 1883 = Gymnomur^ena* Bleeker, Giinther 

 et al {not Eaup). 

 Type M. olivacea Lac^p^de. — 



12. ChannomurvENA, Richardson, Ich. Erebus & Terror, p. 96, 1847. 

 Type C. vittata Richardson. 



* The name Gymnomura'na has been used for another genus, viz : 

 Gymnomurjena Lacepede. Hist. Nat. Poissons, v. 5, p. 648, 1803 ; Eaup, Cat. Apod. 

 Fish B. M., p. 103, 1856; Jordan ^ Gilbert, Pioc. JJ . S. Nat. Mus., v. 5, p. 574, 

 1883. 

 Type G. zebra (Shaw). 

 The differences between this *' genus" and Echidna appear to be due chiefly to age, 

 as Bleeker has shown. 



