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Identification of the Primary Types of Pseudochromine Species Described by Pieter Bleeker, with Lectotype Designations for Pseudochromis Tapeinosoma and P Identification of the Primary Types of Pseudochromine Species Described by Pieter Bleeker, with Lectotype Designations for Pseudochromis tapeinosoma and P. xanthochir (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae) Anthony C. Gill Copeia, Vol. 1995, No. 1. (Feb. 15, 1995), pp. 243-246. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0045-8511%2819950215%293%3A1995%3A1%3C243%3AIOTPTO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J Copeia is currently published by American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. 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For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. http://www.jstor.org Fri Jun 29 15:06:01 2007 SHORTER CONTRIBUTIONS 243 JAMIESON,B. 1991. Fish evolution and systematics: Museum) in Leiden, Netherlands (Whitehead evidence from spermatozoa. Cambridge Univ. Press, et al., 1966). According to Whitehead et al. New York, New York; Sydney, Australia. (1966:5), these specimens were mainly dupli- LAHNSTEINER,F., AND R. A. PATZNER.1990. Sper- cates of those specimens on which his original miogenesis and structure of mature spermatozoa in descriptions were based; the latter were kept in blenniid fishes (Pisces, Blenniidae). J. Submicrosc. his personal collection. However, Mees (1962: Cytol. Pathol. 22:565-576. MATTE],X. 1988. The flagellar apparatus of sper- 8 1) noted that Bleeker sometimes discarded type matozoa in fish. Ultrastructure and evolution. Bi- specimens that were in poor condition when he ology of the Cell 63:151-158. had acquired better specimens. Be- -, D. THIAM,AND 0.THIOMTHAW.1989. Le tween 1858 and 1880, the British Museum pur- spermatozoide de Ophidion sp. (Poisson, Teleos- chased nine lots (now housed in the ~aiural teen): Particularites ultrastructurales du flagelle. J. History Museum) from the Bleeker collection, Ultrastr. Molec. Struct. Res. 102:162-169. including some types. The remainder of Bleek- VAN VUREN,J. H. J., AND J. T. SOLEY. 1986. The er's collection was divided into 15 systematic fine structure of the sperm tail of the teleost Or- groups in five main series, A to E, of diminishing eochromis macrochir (Cichlidae). Elektronmikroskop. Suidelike Afrika 77-78. importance, for auction in 1879 (Hubrecht, 1879). The A series, which was believed to in- LEVFISHELSON, Department of Zoology, Tel Auiv clude the types, was purchased by the Rijks- University, Ramat Auiv 69978, Israel; and Y. museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, DELAREA,Electron-Microscope Unit, Tel Auiu Netherlands. Groups VI, XIV, and XV of the University, Ramat Auiv 69978, Israel. Submit- B series were purchased by W. Berlin, professor ted: 10 May 1993. Accepted: 19 Nov. 1993. of anatomy at Amsterdam, Netherlands. The C Section editor: G. R. Ultsch. and D series were purchased by E. Gerrard, apparently for the British Museum. Some of these specimens, presumably all from the C se- ries, were purchased from Gerrard by F. McCoy for the National Museum of Victoria, Mel- bourne, Australia; no pseudochromids were in- cluded by Dixon and Huxley (1982) in their list Copcia, 1995(1), pp. 243-246 t3 1995 by the American Society of of National Museum of Victoria Bleeker spec- Ichthyologistsand Herpetologists imens. The remaining 12 groups of the B series IDENTIFICATION OF THE PRIMARY and all of series E were unsold; these specimens TYPES OF PSEUDOCHROMINE SPECIES were either sent to the Rijksmuseum van Na- DESCRIBED BY PIETER BLEEKER, WITH tuurlijke Historie or were sold to it at some later LECTOTYPE DESIGNATIONS FOR PSECr- date (Whitehead et a]., 1966; Dixon and Hux- DOCHROMIS TAPEINOSOMA AND P. XAN- ley, 1982). THOCHIR (PERCIFORMES: PSEUDOCH- I attempt here to identify Bleeker's type spec- ROMIDAE).-P. Bleeker (1819- 1878) made imens of the eight nominal pseudochromine extensive collections of fishes while stationed as species based on the examination of his speci- Army Surgeon in Batavia, Dutch East Indies mens in the Natural History Museum, London, (Indonesia), from 1842-1 860. He described England (BMNH), the Mus6um national $His- many species of fishes, including eight nominal toire naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN), and the species of the pseudochromid subfamily Pseu- Nationaal Natuurhistorische Museum, Leiden, dochrominae. Members of this subfamily are Netherlands (RMNH). distinguished from the other pseudochromid subfamilies (Anisochrominae, Congrogadinae, Cichlops melanotaenia Bleeker (1852) and Pseudoplesiopinae) in having five (vs four [= Labracinus cyclophthalmus (Miiller and Tros- or fewer) segmented pelvic-fin rays (Godkin and chel, 1849)l Winterbottom, 1985). The history of Bleeker's collections of fishes Bleeker (1852) described Cichlops melanotaen- has been discussed in detail by Mees (1962), ia from a single specimen, 185 mm TL from Whitehead et al. (1966), Boeseman (1973), and Macassar (= Ujung Pandang), Celebes (= Su- Dixon and Huxley (1982). During the years lawesi). In his 1875 revision, he listed six spec- 1852- 1860, Bleeker sent specimens from Ba- imens, 175-220 mm TL, from Macassar, Sangi tavia to various European museums, including (= Sangihe), and Toboali, Bangka. Hubrecht 12 shipments to the Rijksmuseum van Natuur- (1879) also listed six specimens in the auction lijke Historie (now Nationaal Natuurhistorische catalog, four in the A series and one each in 244 COPEIA, 1995, NO. 1 the B and C series. Based on museum labels, the syntypes based on size. The 42.5-mm spec- seven apparent Bleeker specimens (all identified imen is identified as the second syntype because here as Labracinus cyclophthalmus) were located it shows signs of having been examined in detail. in the present study. One of these is in the Nat- These include the presence of pencil marks on ural History Museum (BMNH 1880.4.21:139), the palatine and vomerine tooth patches and a where it is cataloged as the type, two are in the slit in the left operculum extending from the Muscum nationale d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN jaw angle. This specimen is here designated as 2360 and MNHN A.8848), and the other four the lectotype (RMNH 5960). The second syn- specimens are in the Nationaal Natuurhisto- type (paralectotype) is now cataloged under rische Museum (RMNH 5967). The BMNH RMNH 32434. The remaining (nontype) spec- specimen measures 182.5 mm TL, the MNHN imens from RMNH 5960 are now cataloged 2360 specimen, 200 mm TL, the MNHN under RMNH 31186. This lot is composite, A.8848 specimen, 188 mm TL and the RMNH containing three species: the 44.1-mm specimen specimens, 183,191,203 and 216 mm TL. The is referable to P. tapeinosoma, the 43.4-mm spec- 191-, 203-, and 216-mm TL specimens in imen is referable to P. cjanotaenia, and the re- RMNH 5967 and the specimen in MNHN 2360 maining specimens are P. coccinicauda (Tickell). are too large to be the holotype and may be Considering the geographic distribution of P. eliminated from further consideration. The re- cjanotaenia and P. coccinicauda (Gill, 1990; un- maining 183-mm TL specimen in RMNH 5967 publ.), Bleeker's (1875) Sumatera specimens are is here identified as the holotype in preference probably among the latter. to the specimens in BMNH 1880.4.21:139 or MNHN A.8848 because it shows evidence of Cichlops spilopterus Bleeker (1853b) having been examined in detail by Bleeker. This [= Labracinus cyclophthalmus (Miiller and Tros- includes the presence of pencil markings on the chel, 1849)l left side of the body (along the oblique cheek scale rows, on the opercular and subopercular Bleeker (1853b) described Cichlops spilopterus scale centers, on the centers of breast scales, at from a single specimen, 171 mm TL, from Ma- the base of the eighth segmented dorsal-fin ray, cassar, Celebes. In his 1875 revision, he listed at the anal-fin origin, along transverse scale rows nine specimens, 75-225 mm TL, from Macas- on the anterior part of the body and on the sar, Manado, Sangi, Batjan (= Bacan), and peduncular lateral line), and a slit in the right Waigiu (= Waigeo). Hubrecht (1879) also listed operculum extending from the jaw angle. The nine specimens, six in the A series and one each MNHN specimen has a slit abdomen but shows in the B.. C., and D series. Seven s~ecimens(all no other signs suggesting detailed examination. referable to Labracinus cyclophthalmus) were lo- Another non-Bleeker (Harmand) specimen of cated in the present study: one in the Natural this species in the MNHN from the same period, History Museum (BMNH 1880.4.21: 138, la- MNHN A.8850, also has a slit abdomen, which beled as type) and six in the Nationaal Natu- probably indicates that the specimens were slit urhistorische Museum (RMNH 5966). The Nat- after they had been received by the MNHN. ural History Museum specimen is too large The remaining specimens in RMNH 5967 have (195.5 mm TL) to be the holotype. The speci- now been transferred to RMNH 31 187.
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