FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 549 



Scales 55 to 65 in medial lateral series ; 21 to 25 transversely. Ven- 

 tral scutes 16 to 19 + 10 to 13. 



D. 14 to IT; A. 22 to 26; ventrals below or in advance of dorsal. 

 Sometimes a dark humeral spot. Length to 130 mm. (Regan.) 



India. 



Genus ANODONTOSTOMA Bleeker 



Anodontostoma Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), vol. 22, p. 15, 

 1849. (Type, Anodontostoma hasscitu Bleeker=C?wpatiO(fon chacunda Bu- 

 chanan-Hamilton, monotypic.) 



Maxillary straight, thin, transversely expanded plate, tapering 

 terminally and supplemental maxillary very slender. Vertebrae 42. 

 Scales 40 or 42 in lateral series, 12 to 17 transversely. Dorsal rays 

 17 to 19, with broad basal scaly sheath extending to end of last ray, 

 which not prolonged. Anal rays 18 to 21, depressible in scaly sheath. 

 Ventral rays 8, fin below middle or front half of dorsal. 



Coasts and rivers of India and Indo-Australian Archipelago. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Snout little protruded; scales 19 transversely; D. 15 chanpole 



a\ Snout well protruded ; scales 12 or 13 transversely; D. 17 or 18 chacunda 



ANODONTOSTOMA CHANPOLE (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Clupanodon chnnpolc Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 249, 383, pi. 

 18, fig. 74, 1822 (type locality: Ponds and ditches of every part of Bengal). 



Clupanodon champoJe Cuvtek, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 320, 1829 (on 

 Buchanan-Hamilton). 



Chatoessus chanpole Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. Ill, 1848 

 (copied).— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 410, 1868 (no lo- 

 cality). 



Depth 21/4 ; head little over 4. Snout not much projecting beyond 

 mouth, which nearly transverse. 



Scales 46 in medial lateral series ; 19 transversely, 



D. 15, origin nearer snout end than caudal base, scarcely before 

 ventral bases; A. 21. 



Blackish spot on shoulder, followed by several other similar but 

 smaller spots. Length, 153 mm. (Giinther.) 



Bengal. 



ANODONTOSTOMA CHACUNDA (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Clupanodon chacunda Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, pp. 246, 283, 

 1822 (type locality: Gangetic estuaries). 



Chatoessus chacunda Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. Ill, 1848 (Mo- 

 lucca Sea; Malacca). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1293, 

 1849 (Pinang and Malay Peninsula). — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, 

 p. 146, 1851.— Knee, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 337, 1865 (Java).— Day, Fishes 

 of Malabar, p. 242, 1865. — Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 

 411, 1868 (Cochin, Ganges, Siam, Borneo, Pinang, Sumatra, East Indies, 

 type of Chatoessus selanghat). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, 



