FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 663 



U.S.N.M. No. 37765. Korea. Bernadou. Length, 137 mm., caudal damaged. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 47988. Cochin China. Lyons Museum. Length, 240 mm., caudal 



tips broken. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 57623. Japan, P. L. Jouy. Length, 270-300 mm. 2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 72513. Batavia, Java, Bryant and Palmer. Length, 90 mm. 



1 example. A.S.N.P. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. Length, 305 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 52869. Honk Kong. April 1929. Henry W. Fowler. Length 285 mm. 



Genus OPISTHOPTERUS Gill 



Opisthopterus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1861, p. 38, (Type, 

 Pristigastcr tartoor Valenciennes, orthotypic.) 



Anal rays 56 to 65. Differs from Ilisha in the absence of ventral 

 fins and the dorsal origin behind that of the anal. 



Besides the 2 Indo-Pacific species described below, 3 others from 

 the Pacific coasts of tropical America. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a*. Depth ZMi to 3% ; hind supramaxillary not nearly reaching to hind end of 



maxillary tardoore 



a^. Depth 4% ; hind supramaxiUary nearly reaching hind end of maxillary. 



Valenciennes! 

 OPISTHOPTERUS TARDOORE (Cuvier) 



Pristigaste'r tardoore Cuvier, Regne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 321, 1829 (on Tartoore 

 Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 74, pi. 193, lovrer fig., 1803, 

 type locality: Vizagapatam). 



Pristigaster tartoor V^vlenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 20, p. 328, 1847 (Coro- 

 mandel, Malabar). — BleeivEb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Haring.), vol 24, 

 p. 25, 1852 (Batavia).— Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 232.— Gunthee, 

 Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 460, 1868 (Bast Indies). 



Opisthopterus tartoor Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 3, p. 296, 1866 

 (Batavia; Singapore) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 123, 1866-72 

 (Java; Singapore).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 646, pi. 163, fig. 5, 1878 

 (Gwadur, Sind, India) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 384, 1889. — 

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

 Ratoe). — Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 2, 

 p. 95, fig. 31, 1913 (Batavia, Bagan Api Api). — Fowler, Journ. Bombay Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 30, p. 38, 1924 (Calicut).— Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. 

 Nat. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 10, p. 617, 1926 (Sarawak).— Pillay, Journ. Bom- 

 bay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, No. 2, p. 355, 1929 (Travancore).— Tirant, 

 Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6" note, p. 121, 1929 (Cochin 

 China).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 599, 1930 

 (Hong Kong). — Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 13, livr. 1, p. 112, 1931 (Bagan Si 

 Api Api). — Chevey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indochine, 19* note, p. 10, 1932 (Indo 

 China).— Hardenberg, Treubia, vol. 15, livr. 3, p. 231, 1936 (Telok 

 Pekadai, Borneo). 



Pristogaster indictis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 294, 1839 [on 

 Tartoore Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 2, p. 74, pi. 193, 1803, type local- 

 ity: Vizagapatam]. — Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, p. 146, 1851. 



Opisthopterus indicus Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 11, p. 12, 1923 

 (India, Malay Archipelago, type of Opisthopterus macrognathus) . — 

 FowLEE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 94, 1935 (Bangkok) ; 

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