22 MEMOIRS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Genus CALLELEOTRIS Gill, 1863. 
Subgenus GERGOBIUS nov. 
Orthotype, Eleotris tceniura Macleay. 
Distinguished from Calleleotris by the fewer dorsal rays (13 instead of 
19) and the ornate colouration. 
Calleleotris (Gergobius) taeniura (Macleay). 
Eleotris tceniura Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 4, May 20, 1881, p. 624. Low Island, 
Queensland. 
This is the Queensland species which has’ been called Valenciennea 
longipinnis by authors. Valenciennea Bleeker is preoccupied and the figure 
of Eleotris longipinnis Lay & Bennett, described from the Loo (Loo Islands, 
does not agree with Australian specimens so well as Macleay’s account of 
E. tceniura, a specimen of which I have collected at the type-locality. For 
references to literature concerned see McCulloch’s Check-List. 66 
Family SYNANCEJIDtE. 
Genus SYNANCEJA Bloch & Schneider, 1801. 
Synanceja Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, p. 194; spelt Synanceia on p. xxxvii. Logotype, 
Scorpcena horrida Linne, designated by Jordan Gen. Fish, i, 1919, p. 58. 
Synanchia Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classif. Fish. Amphib. Kept, ii, July 1839, pp. 180 and 267 (not 
p. 268 = Erosa Swainson) ; misprinted Synachia on p. 57. Errore pro Synanceja . 
Bufichthys Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classif. Fish. Amphib. Kept, ii, July 1839, pp. 181 and 268. 
Logotype, B. horricla Swainson (= Scorpcena horrida Linne), selected by Swain, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sei. Philad. 1882 (1883), p. 277. Spelt Bufichthys by Hay, Fish. India 1875, 
p. 162. 
Synancidium Muller, Archiv. Naturges (Wiegmann) ix, 1, 1843, p. 302 and Abhandl. K. Akad. 
Wiss. Berlin 1844 (1846), p. 163. Genus caslebs (“ Synanceia mit Vomerzahnen ”). 
Logotype, Scorpcena horrida Linne, designated by Jordan, Gen. Fish, ii, 1919, pp. 169 and 
201. Spelt Synancydium by Agassiz and by Scudder. 
Synancia Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. 1846, Index Univ., p. 358. Emend, pro Synanceja. Logotype, 
Scorpcena horrida Linne, by present designation. Id. Swain, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 
1882 (1883), pp. 277 and 304. Id. Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xi, 1913, pp. 171 and 
176. 
A difficulty which continually confronts modern systematists is the 
fixation of genotypes for those genera which were originally proposed for 
more than one species and in which there is neither orthotype nor tautotype. 
The practice of using the first species or one chosen as the main species or 
“ example” by the “ first reviser,” without a formal type-designation having 
been made, is discarded as impracticable. The choice of logotypes for fish 
genera has been made in scattered places in ichthyological literature by various 
authors, and, whilst an endeavour is made here to quote the earliest type- 
designations for every genus as far as possible, it is realised that much more 
66 McCulloch, Austr. Mus. Mem. v, 1929, p. 367. 
