FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 661 



Scales 50 in medial lateral series; 15 (?) transversely. Ventral 

 scutes 26+10, prominent. 



D. 16 or 17, origin very little nearer snout end than caudal base; 

 A. 47 or 48, origin below hind half of dorsal, base length 2i/2 to '2% 

 in body length; ventrals shorter than eye, inserted nearer pectoral 

 base than anal origin. (Norman.) 



Body above bluish or golden green, below silvery or yellowish 

 silvery. Snout and mandible dusky terminally. Iris and fins yel- 

 lowish. Length, 150 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Borneo, in rivers. 



ILISHA ELONGATA (Bennett) 



Alosa elongata Bennett, Life of Raffles, p. 691, 1830 (type locality: Sumatra). 



Pellona elongata Guntheb, Cat. Fishes, British Mus., vol. 7, p. 456, 1868 (Su- 

 matra, China, Amoy, Japan ; types of Ilisha abnoy-mis and Pellona sclile- 

 gelii) ; Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 13, p. 158, 1874 ( Chef oo).— Day, 

 Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 643, pi. 164, fig. 3, pi. 165, fig. 1, 1878 (India, Sind, 

 Bombay). — Petees, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 926, 1880 (Ningpo). — 

 Day, Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 380, fig. 117, 1889.— Eleba, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 583, 1895 (Manila, Cavite, Santa Cruz). — Webeb and 

 Beatjfort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, p. 90, fig. 30, 1913 

 (Batavia). — Hoka, Mem. Asiatic Soe. Bengal, vol. 6, p. 481, 1924 (Sing- 

 gora). — PiiiAY, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 355, 1929 (Tra- 

 vancore). — Tikant, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6*, note, pp. 120, 

 174, 1929 (Thaudeumot). — Chevey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indochine, 19" note, 

 p. 9, 1932 (Cochin China).— Sua'atti, Index Fish. Siam, p. 11, 1937 (ref- 

 erence). 



Ilisha elongata Bleekek, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 119, pi. (119) 259, 

 fig. 3, 1866-72 (Java, Madura, Sumatra, Pinang, Singapore, Banka, 

 Borneo.) — Jordan and Snydee, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 53, 1901 

 (reference). — Joedan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 328, 

 1902 (Formosa). — Jordan and Seajle, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., vol. 10, 

 p. 3, 1905 (Hong Kong). — Jordan and Herre, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 

 p. 635, 1906 (Hong Kong, Nagasaki, Wakanoura). — Jordan and Richard- 

 son, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, p. 166, 1909 (copied Formosa record). — 

 Bean and Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 591, 1912 (Batavia).— 

 IzuKA and Matsuura, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., Vertebrata, p. 183, 1920 

 (Yanagawa). — Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 7, 1923 

 (type; types of Ilisha abnormis and Pellona schlegelii; India, Malay Archi- 

 pelago, China, Japan). — Mori, Journ. Pan. Pacific Res. Inst., vol. 3, p. 3, 

 1928 (Jinsen, Korea). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, 

 p. 103, 1928 (Bombay).— Wu, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, 

 No. 4, p. 16, fig. 12, 1929 ( Amoy ) .—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1929, p. 599, 1930 (Hong Kong).— Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. 

 Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 19, 1931 (Fusan).— Fowler, List Fish. 

 Malaya, p. 28, 1938 (reference). 



Clupea affinis Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. Hardwicke, vol. 1, pi. 96, fig. 2, 1835 

 (type locality : India). 



Platygaster affinis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 294, 1839 (on Gray). 



Pellona affinis Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. IS, p. 1273, 1849 (Pinang, 

 Malay Peninsula, Singapore). 



