FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 5 



Lahracmus Bleekeb, Verb. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam. No. 5, vol. 15, 1875, 

 p. 2 (name in synonymy). Type Cichlops cyclophthalmus MiJixEB and 

 TBOSCHEi., monotypic. 



Body oblong, strongly compressed. Head obtuse, convex above. 

 Mouth moderately oblique, curved. Teeth in several rows in jaws, 

 outer row somewhat enlarged. Vomer toothed, palatines edentulous. 

 Preopercle edentulous. Branchiostegals 6. Scales ctenoid, small, 

 about 60 in lateral line. Opercles scaly. Dorsal and anal bases 

 scaly. Dorsal with 2 spines and 24 to 26 rays. Anal about half 

 as long as dorsal, spines 3 and rays 14 or 15. Caudal obtuse. Pec- 

 toral obtusely rounded. Ventral with spine and 5 rays, third ray 

 longest. 



Species of the Indo-Pacific, the largest and most handsome of 

 the family. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o'. DAMPiEauA. Caudal rounded, mo<lerntely long, I/5 to % in rest of body; 60 

 to 80 scales in median lateral series. 

 6\ Body without blackish longitudinal lines. 

 c\ Soft dorsal without black basal blotch. 



d\ Soft dorsal uniform posteriorly cyclophthalma. 



(Z^ Soft dorsal with longitudinal blue lines and bars posteriorly. 



spiloptera. 



(f. Soft dorsal with black basal blotch anteriorly trlspilos. 



b^ Body with blackish longitudinal lines, sometimes few, though never absent. 



e\ Soft dorsal without black basal blotch melanotaenia. 



ff. Soft dorsal with variable black basal blotch, often large. 



melanostigma. 

 a'. Caudal ends in median point behiqd ; scales 50 to 55 in median lateral 

 series. 



f. Baetschina, new subgenus. Caudal less than head in length; 



two broad dark longitudinal bands Mtaeniata. 



f. Ogilbyina, new subgenus. Caudal greater than head, about % of 

 body length to caudal base; coloration uniform longipinnis. 



Subgenus Dampieria Castelnau 



Caudal rounded, moderately long, % to % in rest of body ; 60 to 80 

 scales in median lateral series. 



DAMPIERIA CYCLOPHTHALMA (Muller and Troschel) 



Cichlops ci/clophthalmus MiJLLER and Troschel, Horae Ichth., pt. 3, 1849, 

 p. 24, pi. 4, fig. 1. Sunda Sea. — GtJNXHER, Cat. Fish. Brit Mus., vol. 2, 

 1860, p. 259 (compiled). — Bleeuver, Verb. Kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, No. 

 5, vol. 15, 1875, p. 8, pi. 2, fig. 2 (Manado, Celebes) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. 

 Neerland., vol. 9, 1876-77, pi. (1) 390, fig. 8. 



Cichlops c]/clotJialma Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 24, 1902, 

 p. 491 (compiled). 



Cichlops japonicvs Gixl, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1859, p. 147. 

 Japan. 



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