﻿SIX 
  SUBFAMILIES 
  OF 
  ATHERINIDAE 
  — 
  SCHULTZ 
  41 
  

  

  The 
  generic 
  description 
  is 
  based 
  on 
  that 
  of 
  Myers 
  and 
  Wade 
  and 
  

   on 
  the 
  following 
  specimens 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  : 
  A 
  paratype 
  of 
  

   Nectarges 
  nepenthe, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  119020; 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  N. 
  nocturnus 
  

   Myers 
  and 
  Wade, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  88712 
  ; 
  one 
  paratype 
  of 
  nocturnus, 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  88713, 
  and 
  17 
  other 
  specimens, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  Nos. 
  31011, 
  

   107147, 
  127866-7; 
  also 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  N. 
  nesiotes 
  Myers 
  and 
  Wade, 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  101633. 
  

  

  Myers 
  and 
  Wade 
  in 
  their 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Nectarges 
  {I. 
  c.) 
  list 
  

   three 
  species 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  N. 
  nesiotes 
  from 
  the 
  Galapagos 
  Islands 
  ; 
  N. 
  

   nepenthe 
  from 
  Baja 
  California 
  to 
  Oaxaca; 
  and 
  N. 
  nocturnus 
  from 
  

   Ecuador 
  and 
  Peru. 
  

  

  Genus 
  COLEOTROPIS 
  Myers 
  and 
  Wade 
  

  

  Coleotropis 
  Myees 
  and 
  Wade, 
  Allan 
  Hancock 
  Pac. 
  Exped., 
  vol. 
  9, 
  No. 
  5, 
  p. 
  136, 
  

   1942 
  (genotype: 
  Menidia 
  starksi 
  Meek 
  and 
  Hildebrand). 
  

  

  The 
  generic 
  diagnosis 
  is 
  based 
  on 
  the 
  holotype 
  Menidia 
  starksi 
  

   Meek 
  and 
  Hildebrand, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  79732, 
  and 
  on 
  four 
  paratypes, 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  Nos. 
  79733 
  and 
  81747, 
  from 
  Taboga 
  Island, 
  Panama 
  Bay. 
  

  

  Genus 
  HUBBESIA 
  Jordan 
  

  

  Huhbesia 
  Joedan, 
  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  55, 
  p. 
  310, 
  1919 
  (genotype: 
  Menidia 
  

   (jilberti 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Bollman). 
  

  

  The 
  generic 
  description 
  in 
  the 
  key 
  was 
  based 
  on 
  10 
  types, 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  41165, 
  and 
  8 
  paratypes, 
  U. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  Nos. 
  41210 
  and 
  41480, 
  

   all 
  of 
  Menidia 
  gilberti 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Bollman. 
  In 
  addition 
  I 
  have 
  exam- 
  

   ined 
  so 
  many 
  other 
  lots 
  in 
  the 
  national 
  collections 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  prac- 
  

   tical 
  to 
  list 
  the 
  catalog 
  numbers 
  here. 
  They 
  all 
  were 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  

   side 
  of 
  Panama 
  in 
  the 
  Panama 
  Bay 
  region. 
  

  

  Also 
  I 
  have 
  four 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Pio 
  Mulege, 
  Baja 
  

   California, 
  that 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  Hiibhesia 
  gilberti. 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  Atherinopsinae 
  

  

  This 
  subfamily 
  was 
  set 
  up 
  by 
  Fowler 
  in 
  1904 
  and 
  included 
  Atherin- 
  

   opsis, 
  Protistius, 
  and 
  Gastropterus, 
  the 
  last 
  two 
  names 
  now 
  being 
  

   referred 
  to 
  the 
  synonymy 
  of 
  BasiUchthys. 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Hubbs 
  in 
  their 
  

   1919 
  revision, 
  not 
  having 
  investigated 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  air 
  bladder 
  in 
  

   Atherinopsis, 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  subfamily, 
  included 
  in 
  their 
  use 
  of 
  this 
  

   name 
  "all 
  oi 
  the 
  American 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  family, 
  excepting 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  

   Atherina 
  and 
  Hepsetiay 
  They 
  go 
  on 
  to 
  postulate 
  about 
  the 
  ancestral 
  

   type 
  of 
  this 
  group, 
  indicating 
  that 
  from 
  "some 
  Menidia-Ysko- 
  form 
  

   several 
  distinct 
  lines 
  of 
  evolution 
  may 
  be 
  traced 
  to 
  aberrant 
  genera." 
  

   One 
  must 
  cast 
  serious 
  doubt 
  on 
  postulations 
  on 
  lines 
  of 
  evolution 
  and 
  

   closeness 
  of 
  relationship 
  of 
  genera 
  when 
  based 
  largely, 
  if 
  not 
  wholly, 
  

   on 
  external 
  anatomy. 
  

  

  