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Histiophorus giadius, Brouss. 
(The Sail-fish). 
Nieuhofi, Embassy to China, p. 237, 1673 ; Marcgrave, Hist. 
Nat. Brazil. p. 171, 1648 ; Willughby, App: (plas iaue. 
g, 1686; Valent. Descr. Amboinensis, iti, p. 509, fig. 
125, 1726; Renard, Poiss. Moluques, +171 £:° 34. so emo 2am 
ii, t. 54, fig. 233, 0754) 
Scomber gladius, Brouss. Mém. Acad. Sc. 1786, p. 454, pl. IO ; 
Bl Tehths, tai1%345.7 W707. 
Xiphias ensis, Lacép. Hist. Nat. Poiss. ii, p. 296, 1800 (No 
locality sated ; 
Xtphias veltfer, Bl. Schn. Syst. Ichth. p. 93, 18or. : 
Istiophorus gladifer, Lacép. Hist. Nat. Poiss. 11, pp. 374 and 
; 375, 1802 (Seas of East and Wes- Indies ; Madagascar ; 
Isle de Prance ; Surat). 
Xiphias platypterus, Shaw, Zool. iv, p. Ior, 1803. 
Histiophorus indicus, Cuv. & Val. vili, p. 293, pl. 229, 1831 
(Red Sea ; Indian Ocean ; Amboijna); Cuv. Régne Anim. 
Ill. Poiss.: pl. 53,;: fig. 1, 1850, Jerdon,';Madras’ fourm 
LAs, SCS Sleds kA: 
Histiophorus americanus, Cuv. & Val. viii, p. 303, 1831 (Brazil ; 
Atlantic coasts of Africa) ; Guichen. Poiss, in} Ramen 
de la.,Sagra, Hist. Cuba: p. 105,/1845; 
Histiophorus gladius, Giinth. Cat. Fish. 1, p. 513, 1860 (Indian 
Ocean ; Gape of Good Hope; ? N. S. Wales); Playfair, 
Proc. Zool. Soc: 1867, p. 8560; Day, Fish. India ues 
1876 (common in cold season off Madras); Gilchr. Cat. 
Fish. in Mar. Inv. S. Afr. 1, 1902, p. 123 (S. Africa). 
Histiophorus granulifer, Cast. 
Casteln. Mém. Poiss. Afr. Austr. p. 42, 1861 (Described from a 
mutilated specimen in the South African Museum, Cape 
Town, found on the beach at St. Sebastian Bay after a 
violent storm); Gilchr. Cat. Fish. in Mar. Inv. S. Africa, 
1, 1902, p. 123 (quoted from Castelnau): 
Tetrapturus, Rafinesque. 
Tetrapturus, Rafinesque, Indice d’Ittiol. Sicil. p. 30, 1810; 
Jord. & Everm: Fish. N. and Mid. Amer. péon-erGeo 
Skeponopodus, Nardo, Isis, xxvi, 1833, Cols. 4x) 
Histiophorus (part), .Gtnth. Cat.’ Fish. u, p, 5'2,..180m 
Tetrapturus herschelii, Gray. 
Tetrapturus herschelu, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. i, 1838, p. 313, 
pl. 10, (Table Bay ; Cape of Good Hope) ; Spolia 
Atlantica, pi 4415: Soo. 
? Tetrapturus indicus: Cuv. & Val. viii, p. 286, Be (Sustieniteey: 
on a figure by Banks). 
