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Jordan and Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 38, fig. 29, 1913 

 (Chinnampo). 



Collichthys fragilis Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 522, 

 fig. 4, 1905 (type locality: Shanghai). — Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 518, 1906 (Port Arthur, Manchuria). — Jordan and 

 Metz, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 39, fig. 30, 1913 (copied) 

 (Fusan market, Korea). — Sowerby, Naturalist in Manchuria, vol. 4, p. 189, 

 1930 (Pechili Gulf, Tientsin, South Manchuria). 



Collichthys niveatus Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 519, 

 fig. 2, 1906 (type locality: Port Arthur, Manchuria). — Jordan and Metz, 

 Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, No. 1, p. 39, fig. 31, 1913 (copied) (Chinnampo 

 and Port Arthur). — Sowerby, Naturalist in Manchuria, vol. 4, p. 190, 1930 

 (compiled) . 



Depth 3% to 4; head 2% to 3, width 1% to 2%. Snout S% to 4 in 

 head from snout tip; eye 3% in young to 7 with age, little greater than 

 snout in young to 1% with age, 1% to 2% in interorbital; lower jaw 

 slightly protrudes; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge or slightly 

 beyond, length Iji to l^o in head from snout tip; teeth moderately 

 small, in villiform bands in jaws; interorbital 2% to 3, well convex; 

 preopercle edge with 2 or 3 denticles. Gill rakers 11 +20, lanceolate, 

 equal gill filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 50 in lateral line to caudal base and 30 more in median row 

 out over caudal fin; 66 close along above lateral line to caudal base; 

 6 or 7 above lateral line, 7 or 8 below, 30 or 31 predorsal, 8 across 

 cheek; soft vertical fins all more or less scaly basally. Scales with 

 10 basal radiating striae; circuli moderate, even. 



D. IX, 23, I to 30, I, third spine 2% to 2% in total head length, first 

 ray 2% to 2%; A. II, 10, i to II, 13, i, second spine 3% to 5%, first 

 ray 1% to 2; caudal 1 to 1)^, ends in rather long median point behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 4K to 5; pectoral iKo to 1%; ventral Iji 

 to 1%. 



Drab or light brownish, below whitish with faint silvery reflections. 

 Iris gray. Dorsals and caudal dusted with dusky, other fins whitish. 



China, Korea. Elera has also listed it from Luzon and Manila. 

 Abundant in most maritime Chinese markets. 



Laramichthys rathbunae seems to be a variant, badly preserved, in 

 which the scales have left the head. The discrepancies in the counts 

 of the soft dorsal and anal rays as given by various authors for the 

 present species are apparently due in part to variation, probably 

 more extensive than may be supposed, as well as to method and error 

 in tabulation. 



U.S.N. M. No. 37767. Korea. J. P. Bernadou. Length, 42 to 68 mm. Two 

 examples. 



U.S.N.M. No. 45299. Somewhere on the coast of Korea. P. L. Jouy. Length, 

 90 mm. Type of Laramichthys rathbunae. Eye in description 4>'2, on figure 

 3%. Scales about 47 in description, figure shows 65 notched scales in lateral 

 line to caudal base. Soft dorsal rays 37 in description, 35 on figure. 



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