1372 * 
Genus Brachirus Swainson 
Brachirus Swainson, Nat* Hist* Animals, vol* 2, p. (187) 303, 1839* (Type* 
Pleuroneotes orientails Schneider, designated by Swain, Proc* Acad* Nfct* 
Philadelphia, 1883, p* 281*) 
Synaptura Cantor, Journ# Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol* 18, pt* 2, p* 1204, 
1849 (1850). (Type, Pleuroneotes orientalis Schneider , virtually as 
Synaptura Cantor proposed to replace Brachirus Swainson *) 
Solenoides Bleeker, in Kaup, Archiv Naturges*, vol* 24, pt* 1, p. 97, 1858 
(name in synonymy)* (Type, Pleuroneotes orientalis Schneider , here 
affixed*) 
Euryglossa Kaup, Archiv Naturges*, vol* 24, pt* 1, p* 99, 1858. (Type, 
Pleuroneotes orientalis Schneider, monotypic*) 
Anisochirus Gflnther, Cat* Fishes Brit* Mus*, vol* 4, pp* 480, 486, 1862* 
(Type, Synaptura panoides Bleeker , Designated by Jordan . Genera of 
Fishes, pt* 3, p* 319, 1919*) 
