FISHES OF THE PHH.IPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 25 



Shore fishes mostly of large size, living in warm seas and often 

 valued as food. Genera about 5, of which only one confined to the 

 Atlantic. 



ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA 



a'. Ephippinae. Snout about as long as eye; scales large, about 40 or more; 

 third to fifth dorsal spines prolonged filaments; pectoral shorter than 

 head Ephippus 



a^. Drepaninae. Snout longer than eye; scales small, about 50 or more in 

 lateral line; dorsal spines moderate, not filamentous terminally; pectoral 

 twice as long as head Drepane 



Genus EPHIPPUS Cuvier 



Ephippus Ctjvier, Regne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 335. Type Chaetodon 



orbis Bloch, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera of Fishes* 



pt. 1, 1917, p. 105. 

 Ilarches Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malay Fishes), vol. 18, 



pt. 2, 1849, p. 1142. Type Chaetodon orbis Bloch, virtually (as Ilarches 



Cantor proposed to replace Ephippus Cuvier). 



Differs from Drepane chiefly in the third to fifth dorsal spines 

 elongated, filiform terminally, especially third. It also differs in the 

 short pectoral, which shorter than the head, while in Drepane the 

 long pectoral is twice as long as the head and nearly reaches the 

 caudal base. 



EPHIPPUS ORBIS (Bloch) 



Chaetodon orbis Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 3, 1787, p. 81, pi. 202, 

 fig. 2. East Indies. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 

 1244 (India).— Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 410 (on Bloch).— 

 FoRSTER, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 15. — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 

 1801, p. 232 (Tranquebar).— Lacepede, Hist. x\at. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, 

 pp. 458, 459 (East Indies). 



Chetodon orbis Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 84, pi. 95, fig. 390 (East 

 Indies). 



Ephippus orbis Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 127 (Pondichery, 

 Malabar, East Indies). — Guerin, Regne Animal Cuvier, vol. 1, 1829-44, 

 pi. 22, fig. 2; vol. 3, Poiss., p. 18 (Tranquebar, Malabar, East Indies). — 

 Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, 1846, p. 245 (China). — Gunther, Cat. 

 Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 62 (Sumatra and Ceylon).— Day, Fishes 

 of Malabar, 1865, p. 35; Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 115, pi. 29, fig. 

 4. — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 388 (Bangkok, Siam). — 

 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, 1877, p. 20, pi. (3) 365, fig. 5 (Sumatra, 

 Pinang, Singapore, Banka, Java). — Karoli, Termcsz. Fiizetek, Budapest, 

 vol. 5, 1881, p. 156 (Singapore).- Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, 

 p. 20, fig. 7. — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 30, 1905, p. 84 

 (Baie d' Along, Tonkin). — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, 

 1910, p. 282 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Johnstone, Rep. Pearl Fisher. 

 Ceylon, vol. 2, 1914, p. 220 (off Aripu). — Herre and Montalban, 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, Sep. 1927, p. 11, pi. 2, fig, 1 

 (Sandakan, Borneo). 



Ilarches orbis Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malay Fish.), vol. 

 18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 1142 (Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore). — Jordan 

 and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, 1903, p. 356 (Formosa). — 



