FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 393 



Sciaena soldado Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 6, p. 81, pi. 24, 1918 (Dunk 

 Island; tyjje of Corvina argentea Macleay). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. 

 Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 570, 1927 (Quilimane, Portuguese East Africa). 



Corvina miles Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 173, 1829 (on Telia katcheke 

 Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 13, pi. 117, 1803, type locality: 

 Vizagapatam) . — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Literat. Sci., p. 131, 1851. — GtJN- 

 THER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 300, 1860 (Ceylon and Malay Penin- 

 sula). — PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 8, p. 5, 1881 (Indian Ocean). — 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 23, 1885 (copied 

 Kltjnzinger). — Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 30, 1885 (Indian 

 Ocean). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 502, 1895 (Luzon; Manila 

 Bay). — Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 54, 1930 

 (Saigon) . 



Sciaena miles Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 94, 1830 (Pondicherry; Java). — ■ 

 Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 9, p. 479, 1833 (note) .— Jouan, M6m. 

 Soc. Hist. Nat. Cherbourg, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 254, 1868 (Hong Kong).— Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 2, p. 185, pi. 43, fig. 5, 1876 (Bombay); Fauna Brit. 

 India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 113, 1889. — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 

 30, p. 84, 1905 (Baie d' Along, Tonkin). — Lloyd, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 226, 1907 (Akyab). — Tirant, Service Oceanogr. Pech. Indo-Chine, note 6, 

 p. 169, 1929 (Saigon). 



Sciaena (Corvina) miles Kltjnzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 KL, vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 372, 1879 (Queensland). 



Johnius miles Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 12, p. 73, 

 1861 (Pinang). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 30, No. 2, 

 p. 320, 1925 (Bombay); vol. 32, No. 2, p. 260, 1927 (Bombay). 



Pseudosciaena miles Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 4, 

 p. 25, 1874 (Pinang, Banka, Java, Borneo, Celebes); Atlas Ichth. Ind. 

 N^erland., vol. 9, pi. (2) 385, fig. 3, 1877. 



Sciaena argentea (not Forskal, 1775) (Kuhl and van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 71, 1830 (type locality: Java). (Name in text.) 



Corvina argentea Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, p. 204, 

 1883 (Lake Burdekin River, Queensland). 



Corvina wolffii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 2, p. 66, 1851 (type 

 locality: Bandjermassing, in rivers). 



Corvina sampitensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 3, p. 421, 1852 

 (type locality: Sampit, South Borneo). 



Corvina celebica Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 7, p. 244, 1854 (type 

 locality: Macassar, Celebes). 



Corvina dorsalis Peters, Arch. Naturg., pt. 1, p. 242, 1855 (type locality: Quili- 

 mane, Mozambique). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat, Madagascar, p. 350, pi. 17, fig. 

 3-3a, 1891. 



Sciaena mulleri Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. KL, 

 vol. 41, pt. 1, p. 1, 1879 (type locality: Cleveland Bay at Townsville, Queens- 

 land) . 



Sciaena {Corvina) mulleri Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 Kl., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 372, 1879 (Queensland). 



Depth 3 to 3K; head 3% to 3K, width 2/8 to 2%. Snout S% to 3% in 

 head; eye 4% to 5^2, 1% to 1% in snout, 1 to IK in interorbital ; maxillary- 

 reaches % in eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 2% in head; jaws even 

 or lower trifle shorter; narrow bands of villiform teeth in jaws, outer 

 upper and inner lower little enlarged; interorbital 4% to 4%, broadly 

 convex; preopercle edge denticulate. Gill rakers 7+13, lanceolate, 

 equal gill filaments or 1% in eye; 3 or 4 above and below rudimentary. 



