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description 54 and McCulloch & Waite’s figure 55 shows a generically separable fish 
now known as Actinochromis victorice. Actinochromis and Parma are evidently 
closely related genera, however, and may be segregated from the other Pomacentridse 
by being placed in a sub-family to be called the Parminse. 
Genus ACTINOCHROMIS Bleeker. 
In Jordan’s “ Classification of Fishes,” 1923, p. 218 and footnote no. 442, 
there is included in the Pomacentridse the genus “ Actinochromis . Orthotype A. 
lividus. (Further details lacking.) ” This name, which has been overlooked by 
most ichthyologists and nomenclators, was proposed by Bleeker in his “Memoire 
sur les Cbromides Marins ou Pomacentroides de Tlndc Archipelagique ” (Natuurk. 
Verhand. Holl. Maatsch. Wetensch., 3de Verz. Dec! ii, No. 6 ; Harlem. 1877) which 
appears to have been issued after the ninth volume of the Atlas Ichthyologique 
and therefore posthumously. On pages 5-6 of that paper, we read : “ Le Heliastes 
lividus Steind. scul semble gcneriquemont distinct par les dents uniserialcs et obtuses, 
par le museau et les preorbitaires sans ccailles, et par une dorsale a 18 et une anale 
a 15 ou 16 rayons. On pourrait indiqucr ce type sous le nom d’Acanthochromis.” 
The last word is evidently a lapsus calami , and is not to be confused with the genus 
A canthochrom is Gill. Bleeker corrected his error on page 166 of the same treatise 
w here, in the ki Corrigenda et Addenda ” is stated “ Pag. 6 Lin. 3 loco : Acanthochromis 
lege : Actinochromis.” It is noted on page 39 of the same paper that A ctinoch r amis 
belongs to the phalanx Glyphidodontini, and on page 42 it is placed in the sub- 
phalanx Chromidi, “ 1’ Actinochromis ctant australasien.” 
The orthotype of Actinochromis is Heliastes lividus Klunzinger (not of 
Steindachner as stated by Bleeker). This species was described from Port Phillip, 
Victoria, in Weigmann’s Archiv. Naturg. xxxviii, 1, 1872, p. 36, but, being nonspecific 
wfith the earlier Glyph id odon victories Gunther, 56 must now be known as Actinochromis 
victoria? (Gunther). This species, or one very near it, has been described and figured 
by McCulloch & Waite 57 from a St. Vincent Gulf specimen. An old skin from 
Victoria, identified by Castelnau. is the only representative of this species I have 
seen. The Western Australian specimen noted by Klunzinger 58 is probably a second 
species of Actinochromis requiring description. 
Fowler & Bean 50 have listed Blocker’s name as a synonym of Chromis Cuvier 
but this action is not justifiable ; “ Chromis lividus Steindachner ” is given by them 
as genotype. 
CHECK-LIST OF AUSTRALIAN SPECIES OF THE ORDER 
AMPHIPRIONIFORMES. 
Family AMPHIPRIONIILE. 
Genus AMPHIPRION Bloch & Schneider. 
“ Coracinus” Gronovv, Zoophylacium 1763, p. 66. Non-binomial. Part referring to “ Coracinus 
f asciis latis obliquis ” &o. only. This species is Coracinus seu Sciama unimaculala Meuschen, 
Index Zoophylac. Gronow, 1781. 
54 Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, Feb. 1, 1863, p. 115. Victoria. 
55 McCulloch & Waite, Rec. S. Austr. Mus. i, 11)18, p. 46, pi. 11, fig. 2. 
50 Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xi, Feb. 1, 1863, p. 115. Victoria. 
57 McCulloch & Waite, Rec. S. Austr. Mus. i, 1918, p. 46, pi. ii, fig. 2. 
58 Klunzinger, Sitzh. Akad. Wiss. Wien Ixxx, 1, 1879, p. 398. 
59 Fowler & Bean, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus. 100, vii, 1928, p. 30. 
