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BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



TEKAPON LAMBERTONI Fowler 



Therapon lambertoni Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. Philadelphia, 1&23, p. 40. 

 Tananarive, Madagascar. 



Depth 2% ; head 3, width 2. Snout 3 in head ; eye 3, equals snout, 

 greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, length 3% in head ; 

 teeth in rather wide bands in jaws, outer series enlarged and curved, 

 especially medianly ; interorbital 3%, very slightly convex; preopercle 

 edge behind strongly dentate. Gill rakers 8 + 17, lanceolate, % of gill- 

 filaments, which i/2 of eye. 



Scales 65 along above lateral line to caudal base ; 50 tubular scales 

 in lateral line to caudal base and 5 more on latter; 12 scales above 

 lateral line, 24 below, 14 predorsal forward to occiput, 5 rows on 



FiGDRB 28. — Terapon lambketoni Fowler. Type. 



cheek to preopercle ridge. Scales with 12 to 14 basal radiating 

 striae ; apical denticles 35 to 38, with 5 to 7 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli moderate. 



D. XII, 10 I, fifth spine 1% in head, second ray 14^ ; A. Ill, 8, i, 

 second spine 1%, second ray 1%; caudal 1%, well forked lower 

 lobe slightly longer ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^^ ; pectoral 1% ; 

 ventral II/3. 



Nearly olive lake on back and upper surfaces, which also tinged 

 with dark gray, as if very indistinctly or finely mottled with darker. 

 Lower sides and under surfaces whitish. Head above obscurely 

 spotted with dusky brown, also median dusky brown streak, one 

 above each eye and over nostrils, and one from front eye edge below 

 each nostril to snout tip. Iris dull brownish. Lips pale. Fins all 

 more or less, at least basally, with tints like on back. Dorsal spines 

 basally burnished with silvery white. Outer portions of dorsals and 



