A CATALOGUE OF THE FISHES OF JAPAN. 3 



world by Taxaka, Gar.max, Pietschmanx, Hussakof and others. 

 Many species have been described in Japan by Ishikawa, Kishinouvk, 

 Taxaka, Otaki, Matsubara and Nakagawa. The specimens in the 

 British Museum have been studied by Regax. The collections of Dr. 

 HiTGH M. Smith have been recorded in Washington by Smith and Pope. 

 Very recently, Dr. Fkaxz has described the extensive collections made 

 by Dr. Dofleix. 



In the present catalogue, all these records have been brought to- 

 gether to the date of February 1, 1913. The number of species included 

 in this list is 1230. 



The fish fauna of Japan is one of extraordinary richness. Manv 

 additional species from the tropics will be found to drift northward in 

 the Kuroshiwo. The deep-sea fauna is for the most part, as above 

 indicated, yet to be made known, and large accessions of subarctic 

 species will appear on more extensive explorations of Hokkaido. 



In this catalogue, Japanese names have been attached to nearly all 

 the species. It scarcely needs to be pointed out that, in the vernacular, 

 one and the same fish species has often several names, that it may have 

 different names in different localities, or that the same name may have 

 locallv different appli:ations. Where more tiian one Japanese name are 

 given to a species, the one mentioned first is that which is most gen- 

 erally in use. Locality name in parenthesis and affixed to a Japanese fish 

 name indicates where that name is commonly used for the species 

 concerned. In the cases of species for which no vernacular name 

 apparently exists, attempts were made to introduce one, for the 

 convenience of those to whom scientific names are of no avail. 



The illustrations used are all taken from the several papers in 

 which Japanese fishes have been published in the United States, especially 

 from those wdiich appeared in the Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, in the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries and in 

 JoRDAX and Evermaxx's Fishes of North and Middle America. The 

 insertion of those figures, it is hoped, will greatly augment the usefulness 

 of the catalogue. 



Shigeho Taxaka. 



