Catalogue of Fishes – Discrepancies, Typos, Errors and Queries. List Produced by Dennis Polack Background: From early 2001 I worked very closely with Bill Eschmeyer on his amazing fish database. He provided me with copies of his latest data in Access and I created procedures to find errors and discrepancies. In the more than 10 years that we worked together, I supplied him with lists and reports from which he then updated his live data. Over this period I pointed out many tens of thousands of discrepancies. Bill appointed me as his data analyser. In April 2012 Bill became extremely concerned about errors being introduced into his data and seemed to believe that even though I had never had access to his live data and had only sent lists to him, that I was introducing errors. He believed that he could prevent these errors by not sending me his Access Data anymore. He has subsequently informed me that very few errors are now being created and that the few that are introduced, are quickly found by either himself or a proof reader that works with him. I no longer actively look for errors and discrepancies but continue to encounter some while working on my data base. (My data base is based entirely on Bill’s work and because “Catalogue of Fishes” is such an outstanding piece of work, I use it as my prime source of information) He has indicated that he no longer wants to know about these discrepancies and that he no longer needs my emails. It seems a pity that my input is no longer being used and that Bill is happy to believe that his data base is error free. I decided to make my lists available so that hopefully one of his team or a successor can take advantage of the information and update the data in the Catalaog of Fishes. I am really hoping someone will get rid of the errors as it is distressing to encounter the same errors over and over. There will be some duplicates as I may find them at different times under different circumstances. Duplicates will generally indicate that the error has been around for a period of time. I have different lists of errrors in Access, Excel and Word. At this stage I will only provide the list of those created in Word. This list was started in November 2014. To reduce the number of pages generated, I have reduced the width of the margin to the minimum. This reduced the number of pages from more than 100 to just over 80. Key: Bold red indicates an Error Bold green indicates the correct data Bold black indicates a comment Other Bold colors indicate a query or a comment. On Code recommendation 51D, the anonymous author is listed in square brackets. To avoid confusion Bill also decided to precede the Author with the word Anonymous. Eg. Anonymous [Bennett]. pauper, Gobius De Vis [C. W.] 1884:687 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 9 (pt 3); ref. 17383] Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. No types known. •Incertae sedis in Gobiidae, possibly a species ofGnatholepis -- (Hoese & Larson 2006:1697 [ref. 29097]). •Possibly Gnatholepis gymnocara Greenfield & Randall 2001 -- (Larson & Buckle 2012:5 [ref. 32272]). Current status: Uncertain as Gnatholepis gynmocara Greenfield & Randall 2001. Gobiidae: Gobionellinae. gymnocara : Psilocranium Macleay [W.] 1884:439 [ref. 2873]. Neut. Psilocranium coxii Macleay 1884. Type by monotypy. •Synonym of Dactylophora De Vis 1883 (based on placement of type species) -- (Allen et al. 2006:1358 [ref. 29094]).Current status: Synonym of Dactylophora. Cheilodactylidae. Synonym of Dactylophora De Vis 1883. Cheilodactylidae. : Nahangbagrus Nguyen [V. H.] & Vo [V. H.] 2005:550 [ref. 29730]. Masc. Nahangbagrus songamensis Nguyen & Binh 2005. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Valid as Nahangbagrus Nguyen & Vo 2005 -- (Wright & Ng 2008:37 [ref. 29729], Ng & Wright 2009:369 [ref. 30203], Ng & Wright 2010:50 [ref. 31035], Kottelet 2013:217 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Nahangbagrus Nguyen & Vo 2005. Amblycipitidae. Nguyen [H. D.] : Aperioptus Richardson [J.] 1848:27 [ref. 3744]. Masc. Aperioptus pictorius Richardson 1848. Type by monotypy. •Unidentifiable -- (Roberts 1972:2 [ref. 12567]). •Possibly synonymy of Acantopsis van Hasselt 1823 -- (Kottelat 2012:22 [ref. 32367], Kottelat 2013:177 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Uncertain as Acantopsis van Hesselt 1848. Cobitidae: Cobitinae. van Hasselt 1823 : Holocanthus Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:23 [ref. 1911]. Masc. Holocanthus leionothos Gronow 1854. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1919:258 [ref. 2410]. •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798.Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Pachypterus Swainson [W.] 1838:346 et seq. [ref. 4302]. Masc. Silurus atherinoides Bloch 1794. Type by subsequent designation. Dates to 1838:346; also in Swainson 1839:189 and 306 [ref. 4303] (species added). Type designated by Swain 1882:281 [ref. 5966]. Not preoccupied by Pachypterus Lucas 1846 in Coleoptera (Solier in Dijean 1834 a nomen nudum). See Ferraris 2007:359 [ref. 29155] for the use of Neotropius over Pachypterus. •Synonym of Neotropius Kulkarni 1952 -- (Ferraris 2007:359 [ref. 29155]). •Valid as Platypterus Swainson 1838 -- (Kottelat 2013:252 [ref. 32989]). Current status: Valid as Pachypterus Swainson 1838. Horabagridae. Pachypterus : Thrissina Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] 1925:30 [ref. 2499]. Fem. Clupea baelama Forsskål 1775. Type by original designation (also monotypic). Kottelat gave precedence to Thrissina over simulteanous synonyms Xenengraulis andScutengraulis. •Valid as Thrissina Jordan & Seale 1925 -- (Whitehead 1967:139 [ref. 6464], Nelson 1982 [ref. 5486], Grande 1985:246 [ref. 6466], Kottelat 2013:55 [ref. 32989] but with author as Swainson 1838). •Synonym of Thryssa Cuvier 1829 -- (Whitehead et al. 1988:421 [ref. 5725]). •Valid as Thryssa Cuvier 1829. Current status: Valid as Thryssa Cuvier 1829. Engraulidae. Synonym of Thryssa Cuvier 1829 : Stegostenopos Triques [M. L.] 1997:32 [ref. 22930]. Masc. Stegostenopos cryptogenes Triques 1997. Type by original designation (also monotypic). •Synonym of Steatogenys Boulenger 1898 -- (Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:426 [ref. 23853]). •Valid as Stegostenopos Triques 1997 -- (Albert & Crampton in Reis et al. 2003:496 [ref. 27061]). •Synonym of Hypopygus Hoedeman 1962 -- (de Santana & Crampton 2011:1118, 1121 [ref. 31643]). Current status:Synonym of Hypopygus. Hypopomidae. Synonym of Hypopygus Hoedeman 1962. Hypopomidae. : Stenometope Bibron [G.] in Duméril 1855:278 [ref. 297]. Masc. Tetraodon testudineus Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Appeared as "Sténométope" Bibron in Duméril 1855:278 [ref. 297]; regarded as available by Kottelat 2001:611 [ref. 25859]. Type selected by Jordan & Snyder 1901:232 [ref. 14759]. •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Anchisomus Richardson [J.] (ex Kaup) 1854:156 [ref. 3746]. Masc. Tetrodon spengleri Bloch 1782. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated first by Jordan 1919:261 [ref. 2410] according to Su et al. 1986:102. •Objective synonym of Spheroides Duméril 1806 -- (Shipp 1974:34 [ref. 7147], Su et al. 1986:102 [ref. 12582]; see also account of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798). Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Cheilichthys (subgenus of Tetrodon) Müller [J.] 1841:252 [ref. 3061]. Masc. Tetrodon (Cheilichthys) pachygaster Müller & Troschel 1848. No species mentioned originally; first inclusion of species apparently by Müller & Troschel 1848:677 (Shipp 1974:34 [ref. 7147]) where genus was spelled Chilichthys. On Code recommendation 51D, the anonymous author is listed in square brackets. •Synonym of Spheroides Duméril 1806 -- (Shipp 1974:34 [ref. 7147]), but see also Sphoeroides Anonymous. •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798 -- (Ebert 2001:91 [ref. 25494]). Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : : Cirrhisomus Swainson [W.] 1839:194, 328 [ref. 4303]. Masc. Tetrodon spengleri Swainson 1839. Type by monotypy. Species possibly dates to Bloch as spengleri as given by Jordan 1919:205 [ref. 2410]. •Synonym of SpheroidesDuméril 1806 -- (Fraser-Brunner 1943:10 [ref. 1495]). •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Holocanthus Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:23 [ref. 1911]. Masc. Holocanthus leionothos Gronow 1854. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Jordan 1919:258 [ref. 2410]. •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798.Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Liosaccus (subgenus of Tetrodon) Günther [A.] 1870:272, 287 [ref. 1995]. Masc. Tetrodon cutaneus Günther 1870. Type by subsequent designation. Described in key (p. 272) for 4 species treated on pp. 287-288. Type designated by Jordan 1919:357 [ref. 4904]. Spelled Liosarcus and wrongly credited to Hilgendorf by Abe 1949:93 [ref. 3], see Abe 1954:122 [ref. 5]. •Synonym of Spheroides Duméril 1806 -- (Fraser-Brunner 1943:11 [ref. 1495]). •Valid as Liosaccus Günther 1870 -- (Arai 1983:206 [ref. 14249]). •Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Current status: Synonym of Sphoeroides [Lacepède] 1798. Tetraodontidae. Anonymous [Lacepède] – Agreed format : Orbidus Rafinesque [C. S.] 1815:90 [ref. 3584]. Masc. Tetrodon spengleri