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lateral line. Lateral line with simple tubes. Dorsal short, midway 

 in body. Last dorsal and anal rays not extended. Pectorals short, 

 folding like ventrals. 



One species in all tropical seas, remarkable for its anatomical pecu- 

 liarity in that the rudimentary conus arteriosus of the heart is fur- 

 nished with two rows of valvules in place of one, though none of the 

 ganoid fishes have less than three. Like related families, the young 

 pass through larval stage, in which they are long, bandlike, trans- 

 parent, and scaleless. 



ALBULA VULPES (Linnaeus) 



Esox vnlpcs Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 313, 1758 (type locality: 

 Bahama Islands) (on Bone fish Catesby, Nat. Hi.st. Carolina, pi. 2, tig. 

 1, 1737, Bahamas) ; ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 516, 1766 (copied). 



Synodus viilpes LAcfipfioE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, p. 321, pi. 8, fig. 2, 1803 (no 

 locality). 



Albula vulpcs Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japou., vol. 3, p. 52, 1901 (refer- 

 ence).— Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, (1902), p. 432, 1903 (Hono- 

 lulu).— Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902, p. 521, 1904 (Hanalei 

 Bay, Kauai). — Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 

 1903, p. 55, 1905 (Honolulu; Hilo).— Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4, 

 No. 1, p. 5, 1906 (Tahiti).— Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, 

 p. 87, 1908 (Moreton Bay). — Kendau- and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., vol. 26, p. 242, 1911 (Funafuti; EUice Islands).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 402, 1912 (Kagoshima market). — Webee and Beaufort, 

 Fishes Indo-Australiau Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 7, fig. 5, 1913 (Batavia). — 

 Gilchrist, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 1, p. 53, 1913 (Natal). — 

 Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, p. 293, 1917 (refer- 

 ence). — McCuLLOCH, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 12, No. 8, p. 172, 1919 

 (Sydney; Malekula, New Hebrides; Hood Bay, Papua). — McCulloch and 

 Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 13, 1925 (reference). — 

 Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull. 22, p. 4 (Guam) p. 23, 1925 (Honolulu).— 

 Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull. 26, p. 5, 1925 (Lisiansky). — Barnard, 

 Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 106, 1925 (Natal coast). — Fowlek, 

 Bishop Mus. Bull. No. 38, p. 5, 1927 (Christmas Island). — McCulloch, 

 Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 15, pi. 4, fig. 47a, 1927.— Fowleu, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 27, 1928 (Tahiti, Honolulu, Lisiansky, Guam, 

 Funafuti, Society Islands).— McCulloch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 35, 

 1929 (reference).- Fowler, op. cit., vol. 11, p. 315, 1931 (Honolulu).— 

 Chevey, Inst. Oc^anogr. Indochine, 19* note, p. 8, 1932 (Cochin China). — 

 Herre, Fishes Herre Philippine Exped. 1931, p. 13, 1934 (Jolo).— RoxAS, 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 55, p. 242, pi. 1, fig. 12 (scale), 1934 (Cadiz 

 Nuevo, Negros; Mekong R.). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 86, p. 67, fig. 1 (Sanoer, Bali), p. 410 (Durban), 1934.— Tortonese, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Torino, ser. 3, vol. 45, p. 12, 1935-36 (Mar 

 Rosso).— Fowler, Bull. Amer. Mus Nat. Hist., vol. 70, pt. 1, p. 158, fig. 62, 

 1936 (West Indies).— Herre, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ. 353, zool. ser., vol. 

 21, p. 26, 1936 (New Hebrides).— Whitley, Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 20, No. 

 1, p. 6, fig. 2 (larva), 1937 (New Hebrides). — Roxas and Martin, Dept. 

 Agr. Comm. Manila, Tech. Bull. 6, p. 18, 1937 (reference). — Fovvt^eb, List 

 Fish. Malaya, p. 22, 1938 (reference). 



