JOUEXAL OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TOKYO IMPElilAL UNIVERSITY. 



VOIi. XXXIII., ARTICLE 1. 



A Catalogue of the Fishes of Japan 



By 

 David Starr Jordan 



Vremlent of S tan ford Uuirerailij, 



Shigeho Tanaka 



Lecturer in Xooloijij in Tolcijo Tniperial I'niiersitt/, 



and 

 John Otterbein Snyder 



Associate Professor of Zoo/o;/i/ in Stanford Unirersitij. 



This memoir consists of a Hst of the species known to inhalait tlic 

 waters of Japan, exclusive of the Riukiu Islands on the south, but 

 including the Kuril Islands on the north. The Kuril Islands have the 

 Same general fauna as northern Hokkaido, while the fauna of Riukiu is 

 distinctly tropical, its species being largeK^ the same as those of For- 

 mosa and the IMiilippines and therefore greatly different from tliose of 

 the four great islands, Honshu, Hokkaido, vShikoku and Kiusiu, which 

 constitute Japan proper. 



This paper is based primarily on the collections obtained by Pro- 

 fessors Jordan and Snyder in Japan in 1900, on those obtained by 

 Professor Snyder in 1906, and on the collections in the Tokyo Imperial 

 University and those of the Tök3^ö Imperial Museum. 



The first systematic catalogue of the fishes known from Japan is 

 contained in the great work of Temminck and Schlegel, published at 

 Leyden from 1842 to 1850. This finely illustrated volume contains 

 full accounts of the specimens obtained by Burger in the vicinity of 

 Nagasaki, with excellent copperplates of most of the species. Subse- 

 quently man}^ species were described by Günther from the British 



