BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 Genus APOGONICHTHYS Bleeker 



Apogonichthys Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, 1854, pp. 



312, 321. Type Apogonichthys perdix Bleeker, monotypic. 

 Pseudamia Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, p. 284. 



Type Apogon polystigma Bleeker, orthotypic. 

 Fowleria Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, 1902 



(1903), p. 180. Type Apogon auritus Valenciennes, orthotypic. 

 Astrapogon Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1906, p. 527. Type 



Apogonichthys stellatus Cope, orthotypic. 



Figure 1.— Buccal incubation, Amiidae: 



Amiafusca (Quoy and Gaimard) 

 Amia haTtzfeldii (Bleeker) 

 Amia multilineata (Bleeker) 



Amia cyanosoma (Bleeker) 

 Amia exostigma Jordan and Seale 

 Amia fleurieu (Lacepede) 



Amia compressa Smith and 



Radcliffe 

 Amia hypselonota (Bleeker) 

 Amia orbicularis (Cuvier) 



Profile of head even. Teeth in villiform bands, without canines. 

 Palatines with teeth. Tongue toothless. Preopercle edge and keel 

 usually entire. Gill rakers 10 to 20 on lower branch of first arch. 

 Branchiostegals 7. Scales 18 to 28 in lateral line to caudal base. 

 Lateral line complete. Two separate dorsals, not joined at base, 

 spinous fin with 6 or 7 spines, soft fin with spine and 7 to 9 rays. 

 Anal with 2 spines and 8 to 9 rays. Caudal rounded. 



We separate this group from Amia chiefly on its rounded caudal 

 as the old distinction founded chiefly on the entire preopercle does 

 not hold. 



