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Pomadasis guoraha Fowlee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 232 



(Delagoa Bay) ; 1927, p. 279 (Orani, Philippines). 

 Pomadasys guoraka Baknaed, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, 



p. 678 (Delagoa Bay). 



Depth 2% to 22/3 ; head 2% to 2%, width 1^-^ to 2%- Snout 2% 

 to 3 in head; eye 4i/^ to 4%, 1% in snout, 1 to IVs in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches eye, largely concealed, expansion 2 in eye, length 

 3 to 314 in head; lips narrow, coriaceous; teeth moderate, conic, in 

 bands in jaws, in about 4 irregular series, with outer row enlarged; 

 interorbital 4%, broadly convex; preopercle edge with rather few 

 feeble denticles. Gill rakers 6 + 15, lanceolate, ^2 of gi^l filaments 

 or 314 in eye. 



Scales 43 to 45 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 to 8 more on 

 latter; 6 scales above lateral line, 11 below, 25 to 28 predorsal ex- 

 tending forward above nostrils, 13 rows on cheek. Suprascapula 

 entire. Scales with 9 or 10 basal radiating striae; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 13, 1, third spine 1% in head, first ray 23/5 to 24^ ; A. Ill, 

 7, I, second spine 1% to lygj first ray 2 to 2i^; caudal 1% to 1%, 

 truncate, rounded as expanded; least depth of caudal peduncle 3y5 

 to 31/^ ; pectoral 1 to 1^ ; ventral 1^/4 to 1%. 



Back pale brown, shading paler on sides to whitish below and 

 everywhere with silvery reflections. Iris dull brown. Fins all dull 

 brown. Dorsal spines burnished with silvery white. 



Portuguese East Africa, Seychelles, India, Pinang, East Indies, 

 Philippines. The synonymy as left by Day was involved. Anthias 

 grunniens Schneider evidently does not belong here or PriMiponia, 

 argyreum Valenciennes for that matter. Surely Russell's Perca 

 guoraka is Pristipcmia guoraka Cuvier and as such figured in 

 Bleeker's Atlas. 



22538 Dagupan, Luzon. March 18, 1908. Length 73 to 88 mm. 3 examples. 

 5269, 5270. Dagupan, Luzon. March 19, 1908. Length 188 to 201 mm. 

 10559 to 10565. San Fernando Point Light, N. 39° E., 8.4 miles (16° 30' 36" N., 



120° 11' 06" B.), Luzon. May 11, 1909. Length 151 to 172 mm. 

 6919, 6920. Tacloban market. July 25, 1909. Length 125 to 127 mm. 

 11881. Sandakan market, Borneo. March 2, 1908. Length 105 mm. 

 Ten examples. A.N.S.P. Orion, Batan. April 28, 1923. Length 88 to 106 



mm. 



POMADASYS GUVACEUS (Day) 



PriMipoma oUvaceum Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 73, pi. 19, fig. 1. 

 Coasts of Beloochistlan and Sind ; Fauna British India, Fishes, vol. 1, 

 1889, p. 509, fig. 154.— Peixegein, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, 1914, 

 p. 225 (Fort Dauphin, Madagascar). — Peabson, Ceylon Administr. Report, 

 1915-18, p. F12. 



Pomadasys violaccus Sieindachnee, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-uat. 

 Klasse, vol. 71 pt. 1, 1907, p. 131 (Gischin, South Arabia). 



Depth 2%; head 3. Snout 3 in head; eye 3'%, 1% in snout, 1^4 

 in interorbital; maxillary reaches hind nostril or to eye, length 3% 



