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The fish has not since been collected or recognized, and its status is 

 uncertain. The anal rays were said to number 11. If it is assumed 

 that the simple rays number 3, the maximum recorded in this genus, 

 there would be 8 branched rays, more than in any known species of 

 Puntius. Sauvage's reference to pores on the snout ("des pores au 

 museum") further suggests that the fish is not a Pimfiiis, as the defi- 

 nition of this genus excludes fish with pores or tubercles on the snout. 



PUNTIUS PINNAURATUS (Day) 



Cyclocheilichthys pinnauratus Day, 1865, p. 300 (Cochin, India). 

 Barltus pinnauratus KXeoli, 1882, p. 179 (Siam). 



Doubt must be thrown on the reported occurrence of this species in 

 Thailand. It is definitely known only from India and Ceylon. 



Genus PUNTIOPLITES H. M. Smith 



Puntioplites H. M. Smith, Jouru. Siam Soc, Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 11, 1929. 

 (Type, Puutius (Puntius) proctozysron Bleeker.) 



This genus was established in 1929 for puntiid fishes having a large, 

 strongly ossified, serrated anal spine. In no other puntiid fish is the 

 anal spine serrated, although in several species of Pimtius that spine is 

 large and ossified. The subgenus AdaTnacypris was proposed for the 

 same fish by Fowler (1934a) but was later suppressed as a synonym of 

 Puntioplites, 



PUNTIOPLITES PROCTOZYSRON (Bleeker) 



Puntius (Puntius) proctozysron Bleeicee, 1865 (347), p. 35 (nomen nudum) 



(Siam) ; 1865 (356), p. 176 (nomen nudum) (Siam) ; 1865 (360), p. 200, pi. 



(Bangkok, Ayuthia). 

 Barbus (Puntius) proctozysron von Maetens, 1876, p. 402 (Petchaburi). 

 Puntius proctozysron Sauvage, 1881, pp. 163, 184 (Siam, Cochinchina, Grand 



Lakes of Cambodia).— Smith, 1927c, p. 195 (Siam); 1929, p. 11 (Siam). 



(New generic name Puntioplites proposed.) 

 Barbus proctozysron Weber and de Be.\ufort, 1916, vol. 3, p. 200 (footnote) 



(Siam).— FowLEK, 1934b, p. 346 (Bangkok) ; 1935a, p. 121 (Bangkok). 

 Puntius smithi Hora, 1923b, p. 156, pi. 11, fig. 1 (Bangkok). 

 Puntius falcifer Smith, 1929, p. 11 (Mekong basin). 

 Puntioplites proctozysron Chevey, 1932b, p. 32, fig. 6, pi. 9 (Siam, Cochinchina, 



Cambodia). — Fowler, 1937, p. 198 (Bangkok, Mepoon, Pitsanulok, Kemarat) ; 



1939, p. 45 (Krabi). 

 Barbus (Adaniacypris) proctozysron Fowler, 19S4a, p. 125, fig. 82 (Chiengmai, 



Chiengsen, Bangkok). 



This fish is fairly common and has a wide range in Thailand. It is 

 recorded from the extreme north, in the Meping and Mekong drain- 

 ages; throughout Central Thailand; from the Mekong and various 

 tributaries in Eastern Thailand ; and from the Peninsula. The only 

 regions from which it has not been reported are Southeastern Thai- 

 land and from the Salwin basin and other waters tributary to the 



