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Laramichthys Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 204, 1904. 

 (Type, Laramichthys rathbunae Jordan and Starks, monotypic.) 



Body slender, elongate, well compressed. Head wide, highly 

 arched above, greatly depressed, sides more or less flattened. Muzzle 

 wide. Snout short, broad. Eye small with age, advanced. Maxil- 

 lary largely hidden by suborbital sheath. Teeth more or less uni- 

 formly small. Preopercle with broad flange. Gill opening very wide 

 and deep. Gill rakers numerous. No pseudobranchiae. Air blad- 

 der with hornlike projection each side and many anastomosing ap- 

 pendages. Pyloric coeca 9 to 13. Scales cycloid, very caducous. 

 Soft vertical fins and ventrals well scaled basally. Second dorsal 

 with long base and short rays. Anal below last half of second dorsal, 

 second spine small and weak. Caudal long, pointed medially behind. 



Small silvery fishes, with loose tender flesh and luminous or photo- 

 phorelike markings along under surface of the body. All the East 

 Indian seas; here admitted as a single species. 



COLLICHTHYS LUCmUS (Richardson) 



Sciaena lucida Richardson, Voy. Sulphiir, Fishes, p. 87, pi. 44, figs. 3-4, 1844 

 (type locality: China Seas); Ichth. China Japan, p. 224, 1846 (China 

 Seas, Chusan, Ningpo, Canton). 



Collichthys lucida Gxjnther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 312 (China; types; 

 Chusan), p. 526 (Amoy), 1860; Zool. Record, Pisces, 1866, p. 143 (note).— 

 Steindachner, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, p. 475, 1866 (Hong 

 Kong). — Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 4, 

 p. 252, 1870 (China). — Karoli, Term^sz. Fvizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 160, 

 1881 (Canton).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 8, p. 5, 1881 ("Surinam"; 

 error). — Jordan and Eigenmann, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., 1886, pt. 14, p. 

 348, 1889 (Swatow) .— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 503, 1895 

 (Luzon; Manila). — Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, 

 p. 77 (Swatow). 



Collichthys lucidus Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 390, 1876 (Shanghai). — 

 Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 204, 1905 (Korea). — 

 Jordan and Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 38, 1931 (Korea). — 

 Fowler and Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 315, 1920 (Soo- 

 chow). — Evermann and Shaw, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 16, 

 p. 117, 1927 (Wenchow). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1929 (1930), p. 596 (Shanghai), p. 610 (Hong Kong); Hong Kong Nat., 

 vol. 2, No. 4, p. 302, 1931 (Hong Kong). 



Hemisciaena lucida Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 56, 1865 

 (Amoy). — Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 106, 1881 

 (Swatow) . 



Sciaenoides lucidus Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 Kl., vol. 102, pt. 1, p. 236, 1893 (Swatow). 



?Sciaena meygun Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, p. 225, 

 1855 (type locality: Mari Meridiano; Peking). 



?Sciaena chuan-chua Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, p. 222, 

 1855 (type locality: Gulf of Pechili). 



Collichthys chinensis Steindachner, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, pi 475, 

 1866 (type locality: Hong Kong). (Name in synonymy.) 



Laramichthys rathbunae Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 

 p. 204, fig. 8, 1905 (type locality: Somewhere on the coast of Korea). — 



