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Prist ipoma (Pomadasya) stridena Zuqmayer, Abhandl. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 



Math.-physik. Klasse, vol. 26, 1913, p. 10 (Mekran; Oman). 

 Pomadasys stridens Steindaohneb, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-nat. 



Klasse, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 130 (Gischin and Scheich Othman, South 



Arabia ) . 

 Pristipoma simmene (Eheenberg) Ctjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol, 5, 1830, p. 



260. Massauah, Red Sea. 

 Pristipoma nageh (not Rxjppell) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, pi. 18, 



fig. 8. 



Depth 3l^ to 31/3 ; head 3 to SVs, width 21/5 to Si/g. Snout 3 to 31/2 

 in head; eye 314 to 4, 1 to I14 in snout, 11/5 in interorbital, greater 

 in young; maxillary reaches eye, length 31/3 to 31^ in head; teeth 

 villiform, slender, in rather Avide bands in jaws; interorbital 3% to 

 4%, broadly convex; preopercle edge finely denticulate. Gill rakers 

 7+15, small, lanceolate, 1^ of gill filaments, which 11/2 in eye. 



Scales 70 along above lateral line to caudal base and 9 more on 

 latter; tubes about 57 in lateral line to caudal base and 8 more on 

 latter; 10 scales above lateral line, 13 below, 30 predorsal forward to 

 nostrils, about 12 across cheek of which 5 on preopercle flange. 

 Supraoccipital entire. Scales with 9 basal radiating striae; apical 

 denticles 32, with 8 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 14, 1, fourth spine 1% to 2 in head, third ray 23/5 ; A. Ill, 

 8, I, third spine 2i^ to 31/^, first ray 214 1 caudal 11/^, emarginate; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3^ to 3i/^ ; pectoral 1% to ly^ ; ven- 

 tral 11/2 to 13/5. 



Brown, with coppery luster, also dusted with warm brown. Dark 

 spot on opercle. Indistinct dark band from opercular spot axial 

 to caudal peduncle. Iris yellowish. Fins all pale. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Zanzibar. 

 49312 U.S.N.M. Red Sea. Bellotti. Length 79 to 164 mm. 3 examples. 



POMADASYS FURCATUS (Schneider) 



Orammistes furcatiis Schneidee, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 187, pi. 43. Mari 

 orientali. 



Pristipoma furcatum Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 73, pi. 19, fig. 2 

 (Madras).— Bleekeb, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, pi. (74) 

 352, fig. 2. — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 28. — Day, Fauna 

 Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, 1889, p. 510.— Peakson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 

 1912-1913, pt. 4, p. E16 (Gulf of Manaar).— Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, vol. 39, 1914, p. 225 (Mahambo and Fort Dauphin, Madagascar).— 

 Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Report, 1915-18, p. F14.— Malpas, Ceylon 

 Administr. Report, 1921, p. E5.— Pillay, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, vol. 33, No. 2, Feb. 15, 1929, p. 367 (Travancore). 



Pomadasys f meat us Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Ngerland., vol. 8, 1876-1877, 

 p. 26 (Sumatra and Java). — Steindachnek, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 Math.-nat. Klasse, vol. 71, pt. 1, 1907, p. 130 (Gischin, South Arabia). 



Pomadasys furcatum Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, Oct. 1927, 

 p. 681 (Natal; Zululand). 



