Genera of Paralepididae ^ — HARRY 
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Fig. 11 . Scales taken from behind and above the 
pectoral fins of three genera: a, Magnisudis {M. bary- 
soma, n. sp.); h, Paralepis (P. coregomides Risso); c, 
Notolepis (N. coatsi Dollo). (Illustrations prepared from 
direct projections.) 
members of the genus Paralepis are: P. hrevis 
Zugmayer, P. hrevirostris (Parr), P. coregonoides 
(Risso), and P. speciosa Bellotti. I believe that 
P. danae Ege (1933) and perhaps P. elongata 
(Brauer) also belong here. P. hronsoni (Parr) 
appears to be a synonym of P. hrevirostris 
(Parr) (Harry, 1951: 19). 
Genus Notolepis Dollo 
Figs. 11c, 12, 13, 14 
PPrymnothonus Richardson, 1845: 51 (generic 
type by monotypy, Prymnothonus hookeri 
Richardson); Gunther, 1870: 175; Gunther, 
1889: 39; Dollo, 1904: 8; Dollo, 1908: 35; 
Page, 1910: 16; Regan, 1911: 127; Regan, 
1913: 233; Regan, 1914: 38; Regan, 1916: 
125; Jordan, 1920: 527; Jordan, 1923: 154; 
Parr, 1928: 33; Norman, 1937: 83. 
Notolepis Dollo, 1908: 58 (generic type by 
monotypy, Notolepis coatsi Dollo); Regan, 
1911: 127; Regan, 1913: 233; Regan, 1914: 
38; Regan, 1916: 125; Jordan, 1920: 527; 
Jordan, 1923: 154; Parr, 1928: 33; Norman, 
1937: 83; Harry, 1951: 26. 
Paralepis (in part) Ege, 1930; Maul, 1945: 4. 
PPrymnothonoides Whitley and Phillips, 1939: 
228 (generic type by original designation, 
Prymnothonoides reganiWhkXtY and Phillips) . 
Although this genus was very poorly de- 
scribed by Dollo and was based on irrelevant 
and insignificant characters, it was erected for 
one of the most distinctive scaled forms of 
barracudinas. Notolepis is resurrected on en- 
tirely different characters of both postlarvae 
and adults. 
DIAGNOSIS: Body compressed and elongate. 
Ventral carina on belly moderately developed. 
Head and snout long and sharply pointed. 
Nostrils behind or over posterior tip of maxil- 
lary. Eye moderately large. Pupil round or 
elleptical, larger than lens. Tip of lower jaw 
moderately elevated. Upper jaw terminating 
approximately one orbital diameter before eye. 
Supramaxillary short, splinter-like, closely 
bound to maxillary. Teeth on lower jaw well 
developed, in 2 or 3 rows. Teeth on palatines 
short, in 1 or 2 rows anteriorly; posteriorly in 
one row of 30-50 teeth. Tongue narrow, well 
forward in mouth. Gillrakers not extending 
forward beyond angle of gape; gillrakers spin- 
ous, entirely reduced to many rows of short 
fixed needle-like teeth. Longest rakers much 
shorter than pupil diameter. Pharyngobran- 
Fig. 12. Representative of Notolepis (N. coruscans ]orda.n and Gilbert, from the Pacific off Washington, 159 
mm. in standard length). 
