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Back neutral dusky to brown, sides and below silvery white. Iris 

 white. Dorsal and caudal pale brownish, lower fins whitish. 

 Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania. 



U.S.N.M. No. 48824. Port Jackson. J. D. Ogilby. Length, 50-8G mm. 6 ex- 

 amples. Cotypes [paratypes] ? of Spratelloidcs robustus. 



STOLEPHORUS JAPONICUS (Houttuyn) 



Atherina japonica Hoxjttuyn, Verb. Holland. Maatsch. Haarlom, vol. 20, p. 340, 

 1782 (type locality: Japan).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, p. 1397, 

 1789 (Japan).— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. Ill, 1801 (copied). 



Stolcphorus japonicus LAc^PtnE, Hist Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 381, 382, 1803 

 (Japan).— Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 770, 1905 

 (Negios).— Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 4G2, 1906 

 (Susaki).— Jordan and Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 629, 1906 

 (Wakanoura, Nagasaki, Heda, Osaka). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 42, p. 403, 1912 (Nagasaki). — Izuka and Matsuxjra, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo 

 Mus. Vertebrata, p. 184, 1920 (Tokyo market).— Fowler, Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 30, 1928 (compiled) ; vol. 11, No. 5, p. 315, 1931 (refer- 

 ence). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., vol. 11, p. 19, 

 1931 (Nagasaki).— Heree. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 353, zool. ser. vol. 21, 

 p. 33, 1936 (Tahiti). 



Spratelloides japonicus Mori, Journ. Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 1928 

 (Fusan, Korea). — Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, No. 47, 1933. 



EngrmiUs commersonianus (not Lacep^de) Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 

 p. 308, 1&46 (compiled). 



Cliipca gracilis Schlegei., in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 10^14, p. 238, 

 pi. 108, fig. 2, 1846 (type locality: Southeast coasts of Nagasaki). 



Spratelloides gracilis Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 18, 

 1853; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 6, p. 96, pi. (8) 266, fig. 2, 1866-72 

 (Celebes and Ternate). — Gijnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 6, p. 465, 

 1868 (Japan; type of Cliipca argyrotaenia) . — Klunzinger. Verb, zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 601, 1871 (Red Sea ) .— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. GodefEroy, 

 No. 5, p. 37, 1874 (Viti Levu). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, 

 p. 405, 1876 (Nagasaki).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godefifroy, No. 7, p. 58, 

 1879 (Viti Levu).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. GodefEroy, No. 9, p. 39, 1884 (Viti 

 Levu). — Ogilby, Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 2, i). 72, 1889 (Lord Howe 

 Island). — Ishikawa and Matsuxjra, Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, p. 8, 

 1897. — Steindachner, Abh. Senck. Ges., vol. 25, p. 456, 1900 (Ternate and 

 Batjan). — Jordan and Snydeb, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 53, 1901 

 (southeast Japan). — Borsiebi, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Geneva, ser. 3, 

 vol. 4, p. 218, 1904 (Nocra). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. GodefEroy, pt. 16, p. 

 384, 1909 (Fiji). — Webee and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, 

 vol. 2, p. 20, fig. 12, 1913 (Kangeang Islands; Obi Major; Nusa Laut; 

 Banda). — Herre, Journ. Pan-Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 8, No. 4, p. 6, 1933 

 (Dumaguete). — Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 14, livr. 2, p. 215, 1933 (Temiang 

 Island, Lingga Archipelago, Sumatra). — Gruvel and Chabanaud, M6m. Inst. 

 Egypte, vol. 35, p. 4, 1937 (Gulf of Suez). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. Agr. 

 Comm. Manila Tech. Bull. 6, p. 23, 1937 (Dumaguete). 



Stolcphorus gracilis Evermann and Se:ale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, (1906), 

 p. 53, 1907 (Bacon). — Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 24, 1938 (reference). 

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