FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 303 

 Genus POMADASYS Lacepede 



Pomadasys LacepIide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, p. 515. Type Sciaena 



argentea Forskax, monotypic. 

 Pomadasis Ctjvier, Regne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 345. Type Sciaena argentea 



ForbkIl. 

 Pristipom Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 1782. On Les Pristipomes Cuvikb, R&gne Animal, 



vol. 2, 1817, p. 279. TyiDe Lutjanus hasta Bloch, monotypic. 

 Pristipoma Quoy and Gaimakd, Voy. Urauie, Zool., Dec. 18, 1824, p. 320. Type 



Lutjanus hasta Bloch. 

 Anomalodon Bovfdich, Excurs. Madeira, 1825, p. 237. Type Anomalodon incisus 



BowDiCH, monotypic. 

 Polotus Blyth, Froc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 27, 1858, p. 283. Type Polotus 



uifidus Bi^YTH—L^tjajius hasta Bloch, monotypic. 

 Rhonciscus Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 21, 1895(1896), 



p. 387. Type Pristipoma crocro Cuvier, designated by Jordan, Genera of 



Fishes, pt. 4, 1920, p. 472. 

 Rhencus Jordan and Evermann, Rep. U. S. Fish Comxn., pt. 21, 1895(1896), 



p. 387. Type Pristipoma panamense Steindachner, monotypic. 

 Dacymba Jordan and Hubbs, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, 1917, p. 464. Type 



Pristipoma bennettil Lowe, monotypic. 



Body oblong, compressed. Head compressed, variably obtuse to 

 little pointed. Eyes moderate. Mouth small or moderate, horizontal, 

 cleft rather short. Jaws subequal, upper little protractile. Maxil- 

 lary slips below preorbital. Lips moderate. Teeth in jaws in bands, 

 villiform, pointed, without canines, none on palate. Lower jaw with 

 median, deep longitudinal groove and 2 small, open pores under skin. 

 No barbels. Preopercle serrated. Suborbitals entire. No opercular 

 spine. Pseudobranchiae large. Branchiostegals 6 or 7. Air bladder 

 simple. Pyloric appendages few. Scales large or moderate, 40 to 80 

 in lateral series, ctenoid on body. Head scaled above and on sides, 

 jaws scaly. Dorsal and anal bases scaly. Lateral line continuous. 

 Dorsals continuous, depressible in groove, spines 11 to 15, raj's 12 

 to 18. Anal spines 3, rays 7 to 13. Pectoral pointed. 



Species few, living in tropical and subtropical seas, few some- 

 times in fresh water. Pristipoma nigrorubruni Kent -^ and P. varie- 

 gatuTTi Kent ^^ are two nominal forms never described and there- 

 fore not recognizable. PHstipoma rostratuvi (Rapp) Steindachner ^* 

 is not included by Barnard in his Monograph of the Marine Fishes 

 of South Africa. It is incompletely described : Depth 3 ; head 2%. 

 Snout 4% in head; eye over 3%, greater than snout or interorbital ; 

 teeth villiform, closely crowded, upper better developed. Scales 52 

 in lateral line to caudal base and 13 more on latter, 10 scales above. 

 Snout, preorbital and lips scaleless. Dorsal spines strong, fourth 2 

 in head, last spine equals eye, first ray 2i/^ in head. Caudal deeply 



^ Great Barrier Reff, 1893, p. 369. Queensland. 



" Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 119. Cape of Good Hope. 



