Hans-Joachim Paepke

Comments on the old Japanese fish collections in the Museum of Natural History of the Humboldt University of Berlin

Schlegel, the scorpionfish Pterois lunulata Temminck and Schlegel, and some others. Banjosidae Banjos banjos (Richardson, 1846); ZMB 457, 1 specimen in alcohol, in our catalogue listed as Anoplus Schl. banjos Richardson, origin: Leiden Museum. Callionymidae Callionymus longicaudatus Temminck and Schlegel, 1845 ( Callionymus japonicus Houttuyn, 1782); ZMB 2168, 1 paralectotype, dried, origin: Leiden Museum (Fig. 1). Carangidae Seriola purpurascens Temminck and Schlegel, 1845 ( Seriola dumerilii Risso, 1810); ZMB 8148, 1 paralectotype, dried, origin: Schlegel (missing). Seriola quinqueradiata Temminck and Schlegel, 1845; ZMB 1618, 1 paralectotype, dried (newly detected in Berlin), origin: Schlegel. Cepolidae Acanthocepola krusensterinii (Temminck and Schlegel, 1845); ZMB 1782, 1 paralectotype, in alcohol (newly detected in Berlin), origin: Schlegel. Chaetodontidae Chaetodon modestus Temminck and Schlegel, 1843; ZMB 1271, 2 paralectotypes, in alcohol, origin: Schlegel. Cheilodactylidae Goniistius zonatus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830; ZMB 8162 and 8163, 2 specimens, dried, origin: Leiden Museum. Cobitidae Cobitis rubripinnis Temminck and Schlegel, 1846 ( Misgurnus anguillicaudatus [Cantor, 1842]); ZMB 3449, 1 paralectotype, in alcohol (newly detected in Berlin), origin: Schlegel. Cyprinidae Cyprinus langsdorffii Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1842; 1 specimen without ZMB number, origin: Leiden Museum (missing). Zacco platypus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846); ZMB 3390, 1 paralectotype, in alcohol (newly detected in Berlin), origin: Schlegel. News and Comments