FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 229 

 Subgenus Gerres Quoy and Gaimard 



GERRES LUCIDUS Cuvier 



Figure 13 



Gerres lucidus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 477, 1830. — Bleeker, Verh. 

 Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 38, 1853. — Jouan, M4m. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. Cherbourg, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 263, 1868 (Hong Kong).— Day, Fishes of 

 India, pt. 1, p. 99, pi. 25, fig. 5, 1875; Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, p. 539, 

 1889. — ZuGMAYER, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, 

 pt. 4, p. 11, 1913 (Mekran). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 vol. 32, No. 4, p. 709, 1928 (Ceylon); vol. 33, No. 1, p. 115, 1928 (Bombay); 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1931, p. 446 (off Pulo Telsong, northeast 

 of Singapore). — Tirant, Service Oc^anogr. Pech. Indo-China, note 6, p. (9) 

 13, 1929 (Hu6 River). 



Xystaema lucidus Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, p. 278, 1910 (Sandakan, 

 Borneo). 



Xystaema lucidum Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, Nos. 3, 4, 

 p. 455, 1917 (Ceylon). 



Gerres setifer (? not B. Hamilton) Chaudhuri, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 5, p. 

 727, 1923 (Chilka Lake). 



Figure 13.— Gerres lucidus Cuvier, young 



Depth 2% to 2K; head 2% to 3, width l%o to 2. Snout Zji to SYz m 

 head; eye 2K to 2%, greatly longer than snout or interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches to or little beyond front eye edge, length 3Ko to 3% in head; 

 interorbital 3 to 3%, broadly convex, groove scaleless. Gill rakers 

 5 + 8, short tubercular points. 



Scales 35 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 5 above, 

 9 below, 16 predorsal, 3 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. Scales 



