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(80.) The prince of Musignano's arrangement of this 

 class is the most recent.* As we think it contains some 

 decided improvements upon M. Cuvier's, we shall lay 

 the following abstract of it before the reader, particu- 

 larly as we know that it is the result of no inconsider- 

 able share of knowledge and of attention to these animals 

 in their living state. It is not so much in the primary 

 divisions (which, hke those of M. Cuvier, are entirely 

 arbitrary), as in the series in which some of the genera 

 are placed, that we conceive these improvements will be 

 found. The number of species which the noble author 

 beheves to be comprised in each genus is added. 



I. Order. — Acanthopterygii. 



1. Family. PERcioffi. 

 1. Percini. 



Perca 



Labrax 



Lates 



Centropomus 

 Lucioperca Cuv. 

 Huro Cuv. 

 Etelis Cuv. 

 Niphon Cuv. 

 Enoplosus Lac, 

 Diploprion Kuhl 

 Apogon Lac. 

 Cheilodipterus Lac. 



Temperate rivers 11 



Temp, seas 7 



Africa, India 



America 



Black Sea 



Lake Huron 



Europe 



Java 



Australia 



Java 



Warm seas 22 



India 3 



Medit. 



1 



12 

 1 



g 



Pomatomus Risso 

 Ambassis Comm. 

 Priopis Kuhl Java 



Aspro Cuv. Europ. rivers 



Grammistes Cuv. India 



Anthias Bon. Ind., Am., Eur. 

 Serranus Cuv. All seas 22 



Merrus Cuv. Ditto 98 



Plectropoma Cuv. Ind., Am. 14 



7 



Diacope Cuv. India 38 



Mesoprion Cuv. Tropics 48 

 Acerina Cuv. Europ. rivers 



Polyprion Cuv. 

 Pentaceros Cuv. 

 Centropristis Cuv. 



Grystes f 



Aprion Cuv. 



Rypticus Cuv. 



Apsilus Cuv. 

 Cirrhites Comm. 

 Chironemus Cuv. 

 Pomotis Cuv. 



Centrarchus Cuv. 



Bryttus Cuv. 

 Priacanthus Cuv. 

 Dulichethys J Bon. 

 TheraponCww. 



Datnia § Cuv. 



Pelates Cuv: 



Helotes Cuv. 



Nandus Cuv. 

 Trichodon Cuv. 

 Sillago Cuv. 

 Rhynchithys Cuv. 



"Warm seas 

 Africa 



Warm seas 10 

 Am. rivers 



1 

 2 

 1 

 5 

 1 



7 

 3 



Am. 



Atlantic 



India 



Australia 



Am. rivers 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Atlantic 15 



Warm seas 11 



Red Sea 10 



India 3 



Ditto 



Australia 



Ind. rivers 



Arctic 



India 



Ditto 



as the former, although on a different ground. If a genus is to be divided, 

 the divider not only affixes his own name as founder of the new group, 

 but he does the same to the original one ; so that, in fact, the merit of the 

 original founder of the genus is completely cancelled, and the generic name, 

 although retained, seems as if it originated solely in him who divides it. 

 If this is once allowed, there is no calculating the confusion, not to say the 

 injustice, that will follow: the fame or reputation of no one, who has de- 

 Sned and named a group, is safe ; since it may be cancelled by the very 

 first who thinks it necessary to divide it. On this principle, the genus 

 Gadus, in our synopsis, would be ours, not Linnjeus's ; and Teuthis yiou\6. 

 be recorded in our systems, not as an effective genus made by Linuceus, 

 but by Bonaparte. 



* Saggio di Una Distribuzione Metodica degli Animali Vertebrati ; di 

 C. L. Bonaparte, Principe di Musignano. Roma, 1831. 



f Micropterus Lac. % Dules Cuv^ ^ Coius Buchan. 



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