synonyms of Seserinus xanthurus Quoy and Gaimard by Jordan 
and Evermann?? though how correctly is speculation, 
Attention may be called to the fact that Seserinus Oker® 
would clearly replace Peprilus Cuvier??? if indeed the two, 
are synonymous? Jordan and Evermann in order to preserve 
the neme Seserinus as derived from the non-binomial Rande-~ 
let (which appears irrelevant to the correct designation of 
the type, as the name properly begins with Oken in 1817) 
are thus led to evolve Seserinus rondeleti Cuvier as its 
type, a species thought to be the Mediterranean Centrolo- 
phus microrchirus Bone111/°F , We are unable to accept 
their contention, Fron this it is therefore clear Seser- 
imus_ Oken is the correct name for the harvest-fdshes, 
Should Seserimus xanthurus Quoy and Gaimard prove to te long 
with Poronotus Gill, the latter name must give way to Pep- 
rilus, as its type species P. crenulatus has been considered 
as a synonym, The species would then become Peprilus xanthu- 
rus (Quoy and Gaimard) and Peprilus triacanthus (Peck). 
Bull, U.S.Nat,Mus.,no.47, vol, I,1896, p.966, 
100 
isis, 1817, p. 1781. Based on Cuvier, Regne Animal,vol. 
2, 1817, p. 342. Type Chaetodon alepidotus Linneeus ; 
monotypéc, 
hi si 
Regne Animal, Ed, 2, vol, 2, 1829, p, 214, Type P., 
crenulatus Cuvier, monotypic, si) 
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