A CAIALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF JAPAN. 



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Fig. 25. 



Family AKGEXTIKID.E. 



Genus OsmeruS (Linncneus) Lacépède. 



Osnicri Linnœus, Syst. Nat., loth ed., 1758, p. 310. {Salnio cperlaniis 



Lînnaeus), 

 •Osuicriis Lacépède, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1S03, p. 229. 



Type Osmcrus eperlanus Linnaeus. 



129. Osmerus dentex Steindachner. 



Kyuri-uAvo. 

 Osuicrns dentex Steindachner, Sitzungsb. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXT, 



1870, p. 429. Decastris Bay, northern China. 

 Distrib. — Coasts of Alaska, south to Manchuria and northern Japan. 



Genus Hypomesus Gill. 



Mesopus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1862, p. 14. (Typographical failure 

 to correct proof. Gill first wrote Mesopus, then changed to Hypoincsus). 



Hypomesus Gill, op. cit. 1S62, p. 15. 

 Type Argentina pretiosa Girard. 



139. Hypomesus olidus (Pallas). 



Wakasagi ; Chika. 

 Salnio {psnierus) olidus Pallas, Zoogr. Ross.- Asiat., Ill, 181 r, p. 391, 



Lakes and rivers of Kamchatka. 

 Distrib. — Northern Japan, north to Kamchatka and east to Alaska. 



