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ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



c^ SciAENA. Lower gill rakers 5 to 10. 

 6'. Scales ctenoid. 



cK Dorsal rays 24 to 26. 



d^. Numerous oblique dark stripes, with 17 to 20 dark oblique somewhat 



wavy streaks, narrower than interspaces capensis 



(P. Numerous oblique pale streaks robinsoni 



c2. Dorsal rays 27 to 31. 



e'. Body with dark bands. 

 p. Third or fourth dorsal spines 2)^ to 2}i in head; 9 wide oblique 

 sinuous dark bands, wider than interspaces, one from pectoral 



reaches middle of soft dorsal sinuata. 



p. Fourth dorsal spine 2}^ in head; 9 broad neutral dusky oblique 

 bands, posterior broader, one from pectoral reaches last 



dorsal rays or upper part of caudal peduncle striata. 



e^. No dark bands. 



g^. Dorsal rays 24 to 27; barbel nearly equals eye indica. 



g^. Dorsal rays 28 to 30; barbel J-^ of eye raacroptera, 



b^. Scales cycloid; second dorsal spine equals or nearly equals body depth. 



dussumieri. 

 a^. Ctenosciaena. Lower gill rakers 14 dubia. 



Subgenus SciAENA Linnaeus 



SCIAENA CAPENSIS (Pappe) 



Umbrina capensis Pappe, Synops. edible fishes Cape, ed. 1, p. 16, 1853 (type 

 locality: False Bay). — Castelnau, Mem. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 10, 

 1861 (Simons Bay). — Pappe, Synops. edible fishes Cape, ed. 2, p. 11, 1866 

 (False Bay).— Regan, Ann. Natal Mus., p. 245, 1908 (Bird Island) .—Gil- 

 christ and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 351, 1917 (com- 

 piled). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 4, p. 78, 1918. — 

 Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 578, 1927 (False Bay, 

 Agulhas Bank, Algoa Bay, 50 fathoms). 



Umbrina cirrhosa (not Linnaeus) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 274, 

 1860 (Algoa Bay). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 nat. Kl., vol. 86, pt. 1, p. 61, pi. 1, 1882 (Red Sea at Suez); Anz. Akad. Wiss. 

 Wien, vol. 32, Nos. 24, 25, p. 259, 1895 (Suez). 



Depth 2K to 3; head 3 to 3K. Eye 4 to 4%, Iji in snout, 1% in 

 interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye center, length 2% in head; barbel 

 4 in eye; preorbital depth not quite equal to eye. Gill rakers 8 or 9 

 on lower front arch, lower ones mere knobs. 



Scales 52 to 55 in lateral line; 9 to 11 above, 16 to 18 below; scales 

 ctenoid, also same on head and breast. Lateral line 3 to 5 branched 

 in tubes. 



D. X, I, 24 or 25, third spine or third and fourth longest, about 2 

 in head or 2}^ in body depth; A. II, 7, second spine stout, 3 in head 

 or 3K in body depth and K to Ji longest ray; caudal subtruncate in 

 adult. 



Grayish above, whitish below, with silvery sheen, with 17 to 20 

 more or less distinct, dark, oblique, somewhat wavy streaks, narrower 

 than intervals. Pectoral axil dark. Spinous dorsal and ventral 



