FRESH-WATER FISHES OF SIAM, OR THAILAND 7 



Jambu and Patani Kivers; and G. A. Boulenger supplied a mere 

 "List of Freshwater Fishes," 12 in number, all of which except one 

 were taken in the Patani watershed, and most of them from the Patani 

 River between Biserat and the town of Patani. 



Among other authorities who have contributed to the knowledge of 

 Siamese fishes are: Albert Giinther, of the British Museum, whose 

 "Catalogue of the Fishes" in that institution (1859-1870) contains de- 

 scriptions of a number of new forms from Siam (including the archer- 

 fish Toxotes microlepis, the serpenthead Ophicephalics siamensis, and 

 the sole Gynoglossus xiphoideus), mostly collected by Henri Mouhot 

 and described also in an appendix to Mouhot 's posthumous volumes; 

 George A. Boulenger, of the British Museum, who, in a paper entitled 

 "Description of a New Genus of Cyprinoid Fishes from Siam" (1898), 

 gave an account of the remarkable Catlocarpio siamensis and made in- 

 cidental references to local species in other papers ; L. S. Berg, who in 

 1906 described Gyrinoche'dus haznakovi from a part of Siam now in 

 Cambodia ; C. Tate Regan, of the British Museum, who, in his "Asiatic 

 Fishes of the Family Anabantidae" (1910), described two important 

 Siamese species, the fightingfish Betta splendens and the anabantid 

 Trichopodus pectordlis, now THchogaster peotoralis^ and in another 

 paper (1913) described the catfish Leiocassis siamensis; Hialmar Ren- 

 dahl (1920) who made known a new cyprinid Barbus hantajnensis, now 

 Acrossocheilus hantamensis, from Northern Siam; J. R. Norman, of 

 the British Museum, who in 1925 described a new cyprinid Barbus 

 vemayi, now Puntius vevTiayi^ collected by Arthur S. Vernay in the 

 Mewong, north-central Siam; W. C. H. Peters (1868), who listed 17 

 species of Siamese fresh-water fishes collected in January to May 1861 

 by Dr. F. Jagor; Eduard von Martens, who (1865-1876) reported on 

 the fishes collected on the Prussian Expedition to Eastern Asia (1860- 

 1863) and listed about 45 species of Siamese fresh-water fishes obtained 

 at Bangkok and Petchaburi ; Franz Steindachner, who in 1879 described 

 the cyprinid Luciosomg, hleekeri and the catfish Pangasius siamensis 

 from the Menam Chao Phya at Bangkok; Ernst Ahl, whose "Eine 

 Revision der Cypriniden-Gattung Esomus" (1924) contains a descrip- 

 tion of Esomus metalUcus from Siam; Erna Mohr (1926a), who de- 

 scribed two new hemiramphs, ZeTiarchopterus claims and Z. pappen- 

 heimi, from Bangkok; L. F. de Beaufort, who, in 1927, published a 

 description of a new cyprinid Tylognathus siamensis; George S. Myers, 

 who in two papers (1928 and 1937) extended our knowledge of the 

 remarkable family Phallostethidae, describing Phenacostethus smithi 

 fi nd Neostethus siamensis as new ; and A. S. Pearse, who, in 1933, in a 

 paper entitled "The Gobies at Paknam," gave an interesting account of 

 the food and parasites of certain species of gobies abounding in the 

 lower Menam Chao Phya. 



