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2. CALLIURICHTHYS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 

 YOMEGOCHI (BRIDE KOCHI).' 



Callionymus japonicus HnvTTvy^, Verb. Holl. Maatsch. Wet. Harlem, XX, 1782 



p. 311; Nagasaki. 

 CaUionymiis reevesl Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Fishes, 1844, p. 60, pi. xxxvi, figs. 

 1-3; Canton.— Richardson, Ich. China, 1846, p. 210; Hongkong, Macao.— 

 Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genoot, XXV, 1853, Nalez. leh. Japan, p. 44; Nat. 

 Tyds. Ned. Ind., V, 1853, Ceram, III, p. 244; China. 

 Calliomjmm longlcaudatm Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1845, p. 151, pi. 

 Lxxix, fig. 1; Nagasaki.— Bleek:er, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl., Ill, 1857^ 

 Japan, IV, p. 17; Nagasaki.— GttNTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 148; China! 

 Head 3i in length; depth 10; D. IV-9; A. 8; P. 20; V. J, 5. Body 

 veiy elono-ate, much compressed in front, and with the greatest depth 

 about the anterior dorsal region; trunk broader than deep, more or 

 less rounded, and tapering backward. Head compressed above, so 

 that its greatest depth is one-half its breadth; snout pointed, com- 

 pressed above, the depth two-thirds the length, and a bony ridge form- 

 ing directly in front of the eyes, but without a distinct bony ridge in 



Fig. 2.— Calliukichthys japunicus. 



front of each r,ostril; eyes close together on top of tlie head, directed 

 upward, li in the snout, 3 in the greatest width, and 4| in the length 

 of the head; mouth small, inferior, the jaws equal, and the maxilkry 

 reaching the nostril; teeth minute, and in bands in the jaws; lower 

 lips a little broad on each side; the preoperculum with a strong, sharp 

 spine directed backward, in some examples a trifle longer than the 

 eye, the upper edge with small sharp antrorse barbs, and the base in 

 front with a short spine directed forward; top of the head with two 

 elevated buckler-like crests, striate, and separated from each other by 

 the smooth integument of the head. Gill openings small, round, on 

 the upper surface of the body a short distance in front of the origin 

 of^hedorsal, as far apart as the space between the outer margins of 



• Kochi {godd in composition) is the vernacular name of all species of Phtyceph- 

 aim, and of CaUionymus. 



