FISHES OF FAMILY BLENNIIDAE 15 



Medusablennius Springer, 1966, Copeia, no. 1, p. 56 (type-species: M. chant 

 Springer, 1966, by original designation and monotypy), 



Parahlennius Ribeiro, 1915, Arch. Nac. Rio de Janeiro, vol. 17, Blenniidae, p. 

 3 (type-species: Blennius pilicornis Cuvier, 1829, by monotypy). 



Pholis Cuvier, 1817, Regne animal, vol. 2, p. 251 (type-species: Blennius phoUs 

 Linnaeus, 1758, by tautonymy; a junior homonym of PhoUs Gronow, in 

 Scopoli, 1787, Pholididae). 



Pidiblennius Whitley, 1930, Mem. Queenland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 19 (type- 

 species: Blennius intermedius Ogilby, 1915, by original designation). 



Queriblennius Whitley, 1933, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 19, p. 93 (type-species: 

 Blennius gaudichaudi Whitley, 1933, by original designation and monotypy). 



Runulops Ogilby, 1910, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 55 (type-species: 

 Blennechis fasciatus Jenyns, 1842, •= Blennius sordidus Bennett, 1828, by 

 subsequent designation of Jordan, 1920, Genera of fishes, pt. 4, p. 536, as 

 "orthotype"; by Norman, 1943, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 11, vol. 10, p. 

 802, as "type"). 



Solaria Forsk&l, 1775, Descriptiones animalium . . ., pp. x and 22 (type-species: 

 Blennius salaria Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836, Histoire 

 naturelle des poissons, vol. 11, p. 248, by subsequent monotypy and taut- 

 onymy). 



Scartella Jordan, 1886, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 9, p. 50 (type-species: Blennius 

 microstomus Poey, 1861, = Blennius cristatus Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy). 



Semablennius Fowler, 1954, Notulae naturae, no. 265, p. 1 (type-species: S. 

 gallowayi Fowler, November 1954, = Blennius nicholsi Tavolga, May 1954, 

 by original designation and monotypy) . 



Spinoblennius Herre, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., vol. 18, no. 12, 

 p. 435 (type-species: S. spiniger Herre, 1935, = Blennius brevipinnis Gtinther, 

 1861, by original designation and monotypy). 



Zeablennius Whitley, 1930, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, no. 1, p. 20 (type- 

 species: Blennius laticlavius Griffin, 1926, by original designation and 

 monotypy) . 



Nominal Genera of the Tribe Omobranchini 



Cruantus Smith, 1959, Rhodes Univ. Ichthyol. Bull., no 14, p. 234 (type-species: 

 Omobranchus dealmeida Smith, 1949, by original designation). 



Cyneichthys Ogilby, 1910, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 55 (type-species: 

 Blennechis anolius Valenciennes, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836, by ori- 

 ginal designation, in parentheses, and monotypy) . 



Graviceps Fowler, 1903, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 55, p. 170 (type- 

 species: Petroscirtes elegans Steindachner, 1877, by original designation and 

 monotypy). 



Laiphognathus Smith, 1956, Mem. Mus. Castro, 1955, no. 3, p. 23 (type-species: 

 L. multimaculatus Smith, 1956, by original designation and monotypy). 



Omobranchus Ehrenberg, in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836, Histoire Naturelle 

 des poissons, vol. 11, p. 287; first appearance in synonymy but subsequently 

 validated by Swainson, 1839, Natural history of fishes, amphibians, and 

 reptiles, vol. 2, p. 274, (type-species: 0. fasciolatus Ehrenberg, in Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes, 1836, by monotypy). 



Pauloscirtes Whitley, 1935, Rec. S. Australian Mus., vol. 5, no. 3, p. 351, (type- 

 species: Petroscirtes obliquus Garman, 1903, by original designation and 

 monotypy) . 



