116 NOMENCLATURE OF THE PCECILIIDJE—GTLL. vol.xvii. 



retention of the Cypriuodonts in the same family with the Cyxjriuids 

 and their natural allies! The Cyprinodonts or Poiciliids are really 

 related to the Esocids and ITiubrids, and to them they should be approx- 

 imated in the suborder Haplomi. 



The chief synonymy of the family and the typecontainiug subfamily 

 is given in the following summary, from which the usage of various 

 naturalists may be learned : 



Family P (K c i l 1 1 d jp. . 



=^ Cypruiodontes, Agassiz, Mem. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de Neuchatel, 1. 1, p. 35, 1834; 



Poiss. Foss., V. 5, pt. 1, p. 12, pt. 2, p. 47. 

 =^ Pa'cilidw, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali delle Sci. Nat., t. 2, p. 132, 1838; t. 4, p. 



194, 1840. 

 =:P(vcilidw, Bonaparte, Trans. Linu. Soc, v. 18, p. 299, 1840-'41. 

 ^ Pwcilidw, Bonaparte, Cat. Met. Pesci Europei, p. 5, 1846. 

 = Cyprinodonies, Muller, Archiv Naturgesch., 9. Jabrg., B. 1, p. 320, 1843. 

 '^ Anablejndw, Apams, Mau. Nat. Hist., p. 107, 1854. 

 > PoccUiidm, Ada:\is, Man. Nat. Hist., p. 107, 1854. 

 <^ Cyprinodo)tiidce, Eichardson, Eucyl. Brit., v. 12, p. 252, 1856. (Includes also 



Diploptenis {= Lucioeeplialun) and VandeUia.) 

 ^ Cyprinodontidw, Girakd, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pacific Uc, v. 10, 



Fishes, p. 302, 1858. 

 <^ CyprinodoHtoidei, Bleeker, Euum, Sp. Piscium Arcliipel. Indico, p. xxix, 1859. 

 = Cyprinodontidw, GtJNTHER, Cat Fishes, Brit. Mus., v. 6, p. 299, 1866. 

 ^ Cyprinodontidw, Cope, Proc. Am, 'Assoc. Adv. Sci., v. 20, p. 333, 1872. 

 ^Cyprinodontes, Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. Akad. der Wissensch., (Wien), B. 67. 



1. Al)th., p. 38, 1873. 

 ^Pwciliidw, Gill, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sc, v. .6, No. 133, 1893. 

 Cyprinoides gen., Cuvier, Dumeril (1856), et al. 



Subfamily P cbxi ii. ii n a^. 



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



195, 1840. 



< Pwcilini, Bonaparte, Trans. Linn. Soc, v. 18, p. 299, 1840-'41. 



< Piecilinm, Swainson, Niit. Hist, and Clasps. Fishes, etc., v. 2, pp. 190, 311, 1839. 



< PwcilUni, Bonaparte, Cat. Met. Pesci Eur., p. 5, 1846. 



= Cyprinodontidw limnophogw, Gunther, Cat. Fishes B. M., v. 6, pp. 300, 339, 1866. 

 ^PoecilUnw, Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fishes N. Am., p. 327, 1882. 



