CYPRINODON
Cyprinodon Lacepède, 1803.
Lacepède, B. G. E. 1803. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. vol. 5. lxviii + 803 pp., 21 plates. Chez Plassan, Paris. [description: pp. 486-488; plate 15, fig. 1] [Only the penultimate “e” of Lacepède’s name is accented in his original work.]
Type species: Cyprinodon variegatus Lacepède, 1803, by monotypy.
Synonyms:
Prinodon Rafinesque, 1815. Lebia Oken, 1817. Encrates Gistel, 1848. Trifarcius Poey, 1860.
