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Megalops kundinga Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, p. 146, 1851. — Bleeker, 



Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 6, p. 87, pi. (16) 274, fig. 1, 1866-72 (Java). 

 Megalops setipimiis Richardson, Anu. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, p. 493, 1843 (type 



locality: Port Essiiigton and Coburg I'eninsula) ; Ichth. China Japan, p. 310, 



1846 (Chinese Seas). 

 Clupea setipinna (Forster) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 285, 1846 



(Tahiti). (Name in text.) 

 Megalops setipinna Blbeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 345, 18(33 



(Madagascar). 

 Megalops curtifilis Richabdson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 310, 1846 (type locality: 



Chinese Seas). 

 Megalops indicus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, p. 388, pi. 542, 1846 



(type locality: Fort Dauphin, Madagascar; Mauritius; Bouru ; Coromandel ; 



Pondicherry ; Malabar; Alipey ; Canaror; Panimbang; Java; Tahiti; 



Tanna). — Knee, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 339, 1865 (Java). — Steindachner, 



Sitz, Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 56, pt. 1, p. 319, 1867 (Cape 



York). 

 Megalops macrophthalmus BLEEKHa^, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, 



p. 421, 1850 (type locality: Batavia, Java) ; Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 



(Chiroc), vol. 24, p. 15, 1852 (Batavia). 

 Elops apalike (not Lac^pede) Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 228, 1865 (Malabar). 

 Megalops macropterus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 284, 1866 



(type locality: Java, Sumatra, Singapore, Bintang, Celebes, Amboina) ; 



Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 85, pi. (15) 273, fig. 2, 1866-72.— 



Macle-vy, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 594, 1883 (New 



Guinea). 

 Megalops oligolepis Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 292, 1866. 

 Brisbania staigeri Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, p. 241, 



pi. 3, 1878 (type locality: Brisbane River, Queensland). — Macleay, Proc, 



Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 258, 1881 (reference) ; vol. 8, p. 288, 



1882 (Lower Burdekin River ) .—Kent, Great Barrier Reef, pp. 302, 370, 1893. 



Depth 31/8 to 334 ; head 314 to 33/5, width 2 to 21/2. Snout 3% to 

 4I/2 in head from snout tip ; eye 3 to 3%, greater than snout or inter- 

 orbital, with moderately narrow adipose lid, most evident with age; 

 maxillary reaches opposite or little beyond hind eye edge, expansion 

 1% to 2% in eye, length 1% to 1% in head from snout tip; inter- 

 orbital 414 to 51/^, convex; slender gular plate 2% to 3 in head meas- 

 ured from tip of mandible. Gill rakers 15 to 17 + 30 or 31, lanceolate, 

 34 longer than gill filaments, which % of eye. 



Scales 35 to 37 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter ; 5 or 6 above, 6 below, 12 to 20 predorsal. Tubes of lateral line 

 with 3 or 4 branches. Scales rather narrowly imbricated, smaller 

 on caudal base, small and crowded on anal base. Scales with about 

 10 to 16 basal radiating striae, reticulations medially. 



D. IV or v, 13, I to 15, i, fourth simple ray li/g to 1% in total head 

 length; A. iv, 19, i to 23, i, fourth simple ray 1% to 3I/5; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 314 ; pectoral ll^ to 1% ; ventral 1% to 214 ; 

 caudal deeply forked, 3 to 3% in rest of body. 



