No. 3. — List of the Fishes, Types of Poey, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology By Luis Howell y Rivero INTRODUCTION The present paper presents a list of some of the types of fishes de-scribed by FeHpe Poey, viz. those which are deposited in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Felipe Poey (1799-1891), who during his entire life studied Cuban fishes, sent to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, between the years 1861 and 1870, several collections of alcoholic fishes, as well as a great number of skeletons and mounted specimens. Among these were a large number of his t^^pes, and it is-the purpose of this paper to discuss such of these as can at present be located. A careful checking has been made of ever}^ specimen sent by Poey to determine which are t.vpes. I have been helped in every instance by his various publications, the original invoices which accompanied the lots, now deposited in the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, besides many notes brought with me from Cuba. Attention is called to the fact that more than once the invoice number of the specimens sent by Poey has been taken as the original "species num-ber," and this has caused confusion. Every species described or identi-fied by him pertaining to the Cuban fauna as far as he knew it, bears a "species number" in all his papers, regardless of the number of speci-mens used or seen. The writer has a complete list of Poey's "species numbers" and these are given with each species herein as No. Poey after the M. C. Z. catalogue number. In this paper, the name by which the species was described is given first, followed by the name which gives the actual status of the species. In the synonymy, reference is given to all the publications of Poey in which the species is mentioned. After this, reference is given to the original description of the species in those cases in which Poey's species is considered a sjiionym. Last comes the reference to the work of Jordan & Evermann (Fishes of North and Middle America, 1896-1898), as the most complete account of the fishes of the West Indies. In all possible cases reference will be given to the latest work concern-ing any major group or family. To save space by avoiding a certain amount of repetition, all refer-ences have been abbreviated, giving a complete and detailed bibli-
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