FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 729 



Rhynchaetis Jordan and Evermann, Genera of fishes, pt. 1, p. 19, 1917. (Type, 



Ryncliana greyi Richardson). 

 Rhynchana Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 3, p. 407, 1919. (Type, Rynchana 



greyi Richardson.) 



Body partly cylindrical. Snout protrudes. Eyes covered by skin. 

 Mouth small, inferior. Lips fleshy. Kound patch of blunt conic 

 teeth on each pterygoid, opposed to similar patch on hyoid bone. 

 No free tongue. Gill membranes broadly united with isthmus. Gill 

 rakers few and short. Paired fins with fleshy, pointed, scaly flaps. 

 Caudal scaly basally. Lateral line distinct. Fins all short. 



Apparently a single widely distributed species in the cooler re- 

 gions of the Indo Pacific, formerly admitted, though more recently 

 grouped as several nominal species. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a\ Head 4% to 4% ; A. 8 or 9. 



6*. Pectoral 1% to ly^ in head abbreviatus 



&^ Pectoral 1% in head moseleyi 



a\ Head ^y. to 5% ; A. 8 or 10. 



c\ Space between dorsal origin and caudal base 2 to 21^ in predorsal space. 



greyi 

 (f. Space between dorsal origin and caudal base l%o to 2 in predorsal space. 



g-onorynchus 

 GONORYNCHUS ABBREVIATUS Schlegel 



Gonorhynchus ahhrcviaius ScHLEGEii, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 

 10-14, p. SIT', pi. 103, fig. 5, 1846 (type locality: Japan).— Jordan and Sny- 

 der, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 56, 1901 (reference) ; Smithsonian Misc. 

 Coll. vol. 45. p. 236, pi. .59, 1904 (Yokohama). — Jordan and Herre, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 643, fig. 5, 1906 (Yokohama).— Franz, Abb. 

 Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, Suppl., vol. 1, p. 6, 1910 (Misaki). — Jordan and 

 Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, p. 209, 1914 (Misaki). — Izuka and 

 Matstjura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Mus. Tokyo Vertebrata, p. 181, 1920 (Izu). — 

 Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 153, 1925 (Mikawa 

 Bay). — Chabanaud, Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 5, vol. 1, p. 506, 1931 

 (reference). 



Gonorrynchus abbreviatus Ogilby, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 10, p. 33, 1911 

 (compiled). 



Gonorhynchus greyi (not Valenciennes) Ishikawa and Matsuxjba, Prelim. Cat. 

 Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 9, 1897 (reference). 



Gonorhynchus gonorhyncus (not Linnaeus) Tanaka, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, 

 No. 50, 1933. 



Depth 83/5 to 9; head 43/^ to 41/2. Snout 21/2 in head; eye 21/2, 1% 

 in snout, 1% in interorbital, adipose lid covering eye; single median 

 barbel i/o of eye, on lower front part of snout ; mouth inferior, nearly 

 semicircular, opposite last third in snout length ; lips thick, fringed ; 

 jaws toothless; interorbital 4 in head, low. 



Scales 180 in lateral line to caudal base, small, cover head and 

 body. Dorsal, anal, and paired fins with long pointed basal scaly 

 flaps. 



