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COILIA RAMCARATI (Buchanan-Hamilton) 



Mystus ramcarati Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, p. 233, 1822 (type 

 locality: Saltwater Ganges estuaries). — McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 4, p. 406, 1844. 



Mystus ramcarate Buchanan-Hamilton, Fishes of Ganges, p. 382, 1822 (refer- 

 ence). 



Coilia ramcarati Gxjntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 7, p. 402, 1868 (type, 

 Calcutta, India).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 631, pi. 159, fig. 2, 1878 

 (Bengal) ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 396, 1889.— Lloyd, Rec. 

 Indian Mus., vol. 1, p. 221, 1907 (Akyab). 



Engraulis {Coilia) hamiltonii Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. Hardwicke, vol. 1, 

 pi. 10, fig. 3, 1830 (no locality). 



Coilia hamiltonii Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 9, 1831 (reference). — Bleeker, Verhand. 

 Batavia, Genoot. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 74, 1853 (reference). 



Coilia hamiltoni Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 21, p. 79, 1848 (Ganges 

 River). 



Tricliosoma hamiltonii Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 292, 1839 

 (on Gray). 



Depth 514 in total length ; head 6. Snout % of eye ; eye 5 in head, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches mandibular joint; teeth 

 fine, rather wide set in jaws, also on palate; interorbital equals ll^ 

 eye diameters. Lower gill rakers 28. 



Scales 70 in medial lateral series ; 9 or 10 transversely. Abdominal 

 scutes 5+10 or 11. 



D. i-ii, 12 ; A. 95 to 110, base 3 in space from gill opening to caudal 

 base ; pectoral rays 12, 6 upper free and reach middle in total length ; 

 ventral rays 12, long as postorbital part of head, inserted slightly 

 before front dorsal edge. 



Generally golden, with darkish stain behind gill opening. Last 

 half of anal and whole of caudal blackish. No golden spots on 

 body. (Day.) 



India. 



COILIA RENDAHLI Jordan and Seale 



Coilia rendahli Jordan and Seale, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, p. 362, 1926 

 (type locality: Shanghai, China). 



Depth 6V2; head 6l^. Snout produced, sharp pointed; eye 4^ in 

 head, equals snout, eyelid imperforated ; maxillary reaches gill open- 

 ing, somewhat expanded at mandibular joint, tip pointed; teeth in 

 jaws, on vomer, palatines and pterygoids and posterior maxillary 

 largest; opercle with fine radiating striae. Lower gill rakers 24, 

 11/3 in eye. 



Scales 75 (pockets) in medial lateral series, caducous. Abdominal 

 scutes 17+35, some before pectoral. 



D. 1-14, origin midway between snout tip and fifteenth anal ray 

 base, longest ray more than base or equals head without snout; A. 92, 

 origin behind last dorsal ray by space equal to head, joined with 



