Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 1 85 PENNAHIA FOWLER, 1926 (PISCES: SCIAENIDAE), REQUEST FOR DESIGNATION OF A TYPE-SPECIES. Z.N.(S.) 2167. By Ethelwynn Trewavas (British Museum (Natural History), London, SW7 5BD) and P.K. l-d\^2Lr (Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum New Building, 2 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Calcutta 16, India) Johnius aneus Bloch, 1793, Naturges. ausldnd. Fische, vol. 7, pi. 357, was wrongly used, as Sciaena aneus, by Day (1876, The fishes of India, part 2: 189, pi. 45, fig. 5). Examination of Day's description and figure and of several specimens so identified by him in the British Museum (Natural History) and the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, and of the collection of the Zoological Survey of India, confirms that the S. aneus of Day was synonymous with Otolithus macro ph thai mus Bleeker, 1850, Verhandel. Batav. Genootsch. vol. 23: 16, and Otolithus leuciscus Giinther, 1872, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (4) vol. 10: 398, a species of the Tribe OTOLITHINI. 2. We had assumed that / aneus Bloch, 1793, had been based on a single specimen, and one of us (E.T.) so acted in 1977 (Trans, zool. Soc. London, vol. 33: 429) when the full evidence for assigning the species to Johnius (Johnieops) of the Tribe JOHNIINI was published. Since then Dr. H.J. Paepke, now in charge of the fish collection of the Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, has written to say that two specimens, Nos. 8726 and 8798, had been registered as types of/ aneus, but that the former is now lost. The latter -which has been studied by E.T. and by P.K.T. (the latter from photographs) -is therefore a syntype of Bloch 's species, and it is here designated lectotype. 3. Among the publications using the name 'aneus Bloch' in the sense of Day are several comprehensive faunal works (Bleeker, 1877, Atlas Ichth. vol. 9, pi. 385, fig. 2; Day, 1889, Fauna of British India vol. 2, Fishes: 119; Fowler, \933, Bull. U.S. natl Mus. No. 100, vol. 12: 376; Weber & de Beaufort, 1936, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. vol. 7: 508; Munro, 1955, Marine and freshwater fishes of Ceylon: 154); one special study of the Chinese SCIAENIDAE (Chu, Lo ci Wu, 1963, Study Class, sciaenoid Fishes China: 58, figs. 33, 59, 85); and an account of a collection of fishes from Bombay by Fowler (1926, / Bombay nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 31: 776) in which he made the species the type of Pennahia, proposed as £L subgenus of Johnius Bloch. Examination (by E.T.) of the Bull. zool. Nomencl. vol. 34, part 3, November 1977
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