366 THE KELATIONS OF CYCLOPTEROIDEA GILL. 



ted to the Antarctic Seas. It is based on a sketch of a fish caught at 

 Telly Bay, Magellan Strait, made by an officer of the mission to Caj3e 

 Horn, and this sketch was supposed by Professor Vaillantto represent a 

 species of the North Pacific cyclopteroid genus Gyclopterichthys — 

 called G. amissus.* As the sketch has not been published, it is imi)Ossi- 

 ble for another to form a satisfactory opinion as to its value for determi- 

 nation of a species in the ichthyological system. If the ventrals are 

 represented as forming a circular disk, the reference of the fish to the 

 Cyclojpteridm may be correct, but if not, a suspicion may be entertained 

 that the fish in question may have no close relation with thecyclopte- 

 roideans, and that it may even be, for instance, the Neophrynichthi/s 

 marmoratus^ erroneously identified with 11. latus by Dr. Giinther. At 

 any rate the so-called CycJopterichthys amissus has no real standing in 

 the ichthyological system. 



Our ignorance of the cyclopteroideans of the southern seas doubt- 

 less greatly surpasses our knowledge, but at any rate it has been defi- 

 nitely ascertained that the superfamily is represented there by at least 

 one species of one genus. For further details we must wait. 



It is probable that hereafter still other species will be found in the 

 southern hemisphere, and the ISTew Zealand naturalists would do well 

 to institute a search for them in the southern portions of their domain. 



SUBDIVISIONS OF CYCLOPTEROIDEA. 



The families of the Cyclopteroideans and their subdivisions may now 

 be considered. 



CYCLOPTERIDiE. 



Sxjn ntjms ni^ famUy names. 



<iPlecopfens, Dunieril, Zool. Analytique, pp. 108, 109, 1806. 



<^PJeco2)odia, Ratinesque, Analyse tie la Nature, p, l'2e fam. (includes Cyclopierus and 



^' Lepdagasterus"), 181.5. 

 <^Discoboles, Ciivier, Regne Auimal, Iro. 6d., t. 2, p. 224, 1817 ; 2e 6d., t. 2, p. 344, 1829. 

 <C_DiscohoIa, Latreille, Fam. Nat. du Regne An., p. 127, 1825. 

 '^CydopterUlid, Bonaparte, Giorn. Accad. di Scienze, v. 52, (Saggio Distrib. Metod. 



Animali Vertehr. a Sangue Freddo, p. 38), 1832; Isis, 19.33, col. 1201. 

 <^Cyclopterida, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat.,t. 2, p. 132, 1838 ; t. 4, p. 193, 



1840. 

 <C^Cyclopterid(V., Swainson, Nat. Hist., and CL^ss. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 197, 338, 1839. 

 <^Cyclopodi, Miiller, Arcbiv f. Naturg , 9. Jg., v. 1, p. 297, 1843. 

 <^Cyclopodi. MUllef, Arcbiv f. Naturg., 11. Jg., v. 1, p. 130, 1845. 

 <^CycIopterid(c, Adams, Manual Nat. Hist., p. 96, 1854. 

 <^Cyclopferida', Girard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pacific Oc, v. 10, Fishes, 



p. 129, 1858. 

 = Cyclo2)feroidei, Bleeker, Enura. Sp. Pisciura Arcbipel. Indico, p. xxvi, 1859. 

 -^Discoboli, Giinther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 154, 1861. 

 =CycIopt€rid(c, Gill, Arrangement Families Fishes, p. 5, 1872. 

 <^CycIopieri, Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. K. Akad. der Wissensch. (Wien), B. 67, 1. Abtb., 



p. 41, 1873. 



* Vaillant, ojj. cit., p. 33. 



