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9709. Una Una Road, Binang Unang, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes. November 17, 

 1909. Length 148 mm. (Type, Cat. No. 89982 U.S.N. M.) 2047. 



13627. Birabirakan Island, off Borneo. December 31, 1909. Length 148 mm. 

 (Paratype.) 



Genus DIPLOPRION Cuvier 



Diploprion (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, 

 p. 137. Type Diploprion bifasciatum (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, 

 monotypic; Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, 1829, p. 137. 



Body short, deep, much compressed, back elevated. Head large, 

 deep. Mouth large, protractile. Maxillary with large supplemental 

 bone. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with bands of villiform teeth, no 

 canines. Tongue smooth. Hind preopercle edge without conspicuous 

 serrae, angle obtuse, lower limb with 8 to 10 strong serrae. Opercle 

 with 3 strong spines. Gill rakers moderate, tips knoblike. Bran- 

 chiostegals 7. Vertebrae 25, of which 13 caudal. Scales small, 100 

 or more in lateral line. Cheeks and opercles scaled, rest of head, jaws, 

 and chin bare. Opercle, preopercle, infraorbitals, and suborbital 

 regions more or less rugose. Dorsal spines 8, strong rays 14 to 

 16. Anal spines 2 or 3, rays 12 to 14. Caudal rounded. Pectoral 

 rounded. Ventral with strong spine, below pectoral base and fins 

 close together. 



East Indies, China, Japan. 



DIPLOPRION BIFASCIATUM Cuvier 



Diploprion bifasciatum (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 2, 1828, p. 137, pi. 21. Java. — Schlegel, Fauna Japon., pt. 

 1, 1842, pi. 2a (Simabara Bay, Nagasaki). — Richardson, Ichth. China, 

 Japan, 1846, p. 221 (Canton). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 174 (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Moluccas, India). — Kner, Reise 

 Novara, Zool., vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 29 (Java, Hong Kong). — Bleeker, 

 Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 71 (Batu, Singapore, 

 Bintang, Java, Celebes, Buru, Amboina, Timor); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (68) 

 346, fig. 3.— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 28, pi. 9, fig. 2.— 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, 1878, p. 346 (Port 

 Darwin). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, 

 p. 310 (Port Darwin). — Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 

 1882, p. 150 (Canton). — Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl., vol. 47, 1883, p. 234 (Kagoshima).— Meyer, 

 Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 10 (Macassar, South 

 Celebes; Ternate). — Nystrom, Svensk Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. 13, pt. 4, 

 1887, No. 4, p. 8 (Nagasaki). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 

 462.— Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 (Queensland).— Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 464 (Luzon, Zambales, Pangasinan). — 

 Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Tokyo Mus., 1897, p. 

 56.— McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 2, pt. 3, 1914, p. 102 (West 

 Australia, Cape York, China). 



Diploprion bifasciatus Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, 1876, p. 386 

 (Nagasaki Bay). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol.3, 1901, 

 p. 73 (Yokohama, Kagoshima, Nagasaki). — Jordan and Seale, Proc. 

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