FISHES OF THE PHILLIPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 369 



PSEUDOSCIAENA AMBLYCEPS (Bleeker) 



Pseudosciaena amblyceps Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 142, 



1863 (type locality: Amoy); vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 (Amoy). 

 Corvina amblyceps Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, 



vol. 4, p. 250, 1870 (China) .—Satjvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, 



vol. 5, p. 106, 1881 (Swatow, China). 

 Sciaena amblyceps Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 



Kl., vol. 59, pt. 1, p. 363, 1892 (Shanghai).— Rtjtter, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 76 (compiled). 

 Sciaena crocea Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 224, 1846 (type locality: 



South of China, Canton). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 501, 1895 



(Cavite; Luzon). 

 Pseudosciaena polyactis Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, Proc. 



Verb., No. 24, 1877; Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, p. 5, pi. 1, 



fig. 1, 1879 (type locality: Shanghai, China). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 522, 1905 (probably Shanghai). 

 Pseudosciaena undovittatus Jordan and Seale, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 



10, p. 11, pi. 6, 1905 (type locality: Hong Kong). 

 Othonias undovittatus Jordan and Htjbbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 



p. 244, 1925 (type and paratypes of Sciaena manchurica; Osaka). 

 Corvula argentata (not Houttuyn) Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 31, p. 518, 1906 (Port Arthur, Manchuria). 

 Sciaena manchurica Jordan and Thomspon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 



p. 255, fig. 3, 1911 (type locality: Port Arthur, Manchuria). — Jordan and 



Metz, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, p. 38, fig. 28, 1913 (copied). — Sowerby, 



Naturalist in Manchuria, vol. 4, p. 189, 1930 (compiled). 

 Sciaena ogiwara Nichols, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, art. 7, p. 180, 



fig. 2, 1913 (type locality: Shimonoseki, Japan). 



Depth 3% to 3%; head 3 to S%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 4 to 5 in 

 head from snout tip; eye 3% to 5, greater than snout in young to 1 

 to 1% in head, 1% to 1% in interorbital; maxillary reaches % or to 

 opposite hind eye edge, expansion !){ to 1% in eye, length 2 to 2Ko 

 in head from snout tip; mouth terminal, lower jaw sUghtly protrud- 

 ing; chin with pair of pores; upper teeth with narrow villiform band 

 and outer row of curved canines exposed with closed mouth; lower 

 teeth as single row of well-spaced canines and small intervening teeth ; 

 interorbital SYa to 3%, broadly convex; preopercle edge little distinct, 

 only few weak spinules along lower edge; preorbital width from eye 

 to maxillary }2 of eye. Gill rakers 11 + 18, lanceolate, httle greater 

 than gill filaments or IK in eye. 



Scales 51 to 55 in lateral line to caudal base and 32 or 33 more out 

 over caudal fin; 6 above, 8 or 9 below; 27 to 35 predorsal, of which 

 13 to 17 to occiput; 11 rows across cheek; soft vertical fins and ven- 

 trals finely scaled. Scales with 20 basal radiating striae; 29 to 30 

 small apical denticles, with 3 to 9 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli moderately fine. 



D. IX, I, 32, I or 33, i, fourth spine 2% to 2% in total head length, 

 first ray 3 to 3%; A. II, 10, i or 9, i, second spine 6 to 7^, first ray 2 

 to 3; caudal 1}^ to IK, cuneate; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 

 d%; pectoral 1^ to IK; ventral IK to 1%. 



