18 CYPRINODONTID.E. 



1. CYPRINODON. 



Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 48G (1803) : Giiuth. Cat. Fi-li. vi. p. 301 (18CG) ; 



Bouleng. Fish. Nile, p. 406 (1907). 

 Lehias, Cuv. "Rogne Anim. ii. p. 199 (1817). 

 Aphanius, Nardo, Prodr. Adr. Ichthyol. pp. 17 & 23 (1827). 

 Micromugil, Gulia, Tent. Ichthyol. Medit. p. 11 (1801). 



Mouth small; teeth of moderate size, tricuspid, in a sinj^^le series. 

 Head flat above. Scales rather large, not denticulated. Dorsal fin 

 commencing in advance of the anal, both fins larger in the males than 

 in the females. Ventral fins present, far behind the base of the 

 pectorals. Vertebrae 24-28. 



Fresh and brackish waters of the Mediterranean basin, South- 

 western Asia, the South-Eastern United States, Mexico, and Cuba. 



Three species in North Africa: — 



Dorsal 10-13, longest rays shorter thrn head ; male [p. 18. 



without or with a single dark bar on the caudal fin. 1. C.fasciatus, Val., 

 Dorsal 9-10, longest rays at least as long as head in 



male ; male with two or three dark bars on the [p. 20. 



caud.il fin 2. T. dispar, Rii|)p., 



Dorsal 9-10, longest rays shorter than head ; male with [p. 21. 



three to five dark hars on the caudal fin .... 3. C. iberus, (■. & V., 



1. CYPBINODON FASCIATUS. 



Lehias fasciadts, Val. in Humb. & Bonpl. Observ. Zool. ii. p. 100, pi. Ii. fig. 4 



(1821) ; Wagner, Isis, 1828, p. 1055. 

 Aphanius nanus, Nardo, Prodr. Adr. Ichthyol. pp. 17 & 23 (1827). 

 A/)Juniius fasciatus, Nardo, 11. cc. 

 Lehias liueo-punetata, Wagner, 1. c. pi. xii. figs. 1-6. 

 Lehias sarda, Wagner, 1. c. fig. 7. 



Fdecilia calaritana, Bonelli, in Cuv. Rcgne Anim. 2nd ed. ii. p. 280 (1829). 

 Lehias calaritana, (Josta, Faun. Nap., Pesci, ii. p. 33, |)1. xvii. fig. 2 (1839); 



Canestrini, Arch. p. la Zool. iv. 1800, p. 125 and Fauna d'ltal., Pesci, p. 19 



(1874) ; Lepori, Atti Ace. Uom. (3) ix. 1881, p. 481; Garman, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. xix. 1895, p. 19. 

 Lehias /luvi, Costa, op. cit. p. 35, pi. xvii. fig. 1. 

 Cyprinodon calaritanus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xviii. p. 151 (1840) ; I^ellotti, 



Mem. Ace. Torin. xvii. 1858, p. 159 ; Giinth. (^at. Fish. vi. p. 302 (1800) ; 



Gervais, Zool. Pal. Gen. p. 203, pi. xlv. fig. 5 (1809) ; Playf. & Letourn. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 389; Sauv. in Revoil, Faune Pays 



(^'omalis, Cyprinod. p. (1882) ; Vincig. Ann. Mus. Genova, xx. 1884, 



]). 411; Polland, Rev. Scientif. (4) ii. 1894, p. 4I.S, figs.; Pouleiig. Fish. 



Nile, p. 107, pi. Ixxix. figs. 1 it 2 (1907). 



