176 ENGRAÖLIS JAPONICUS. 



NOTE XXII. 



ON ENGRAÜLTS JAPONICUS SCHLEGEL 



Dr. C. L. REUVENS. 



June 1891. 



In his » Catalogue of Fishes", Vol. VII, 1868, p. 387, 

 Dr. Günther says , that he agrees with Valenciennes ^) in the 

 opinion , that Engraulis japonicus Schlegel (Fauna Japonica, 

 1850, Pisces, p. 239, tab. CVIII, fig. 3) should be iden- 

 tical with E. ringens Jenyns (Voyage of the Beagle, 1842, 

 Fishes, p. 136). On p. 390 of the same volume the au- 

 thor mentions Atherina japonica Houttuijn , with E. com- 

 mersonianus Richards, as synonyme. 



E. ringens is found at the Pacific coast of America , 

 E. japonicus Schleg. in the Japanese seas ; yet Günther 

 considers it not a very extraordinary fact , that a same 

 species should occur on these two widely separated coasts. 

 As the author, in 1880, described the shore-fishes of 

 the Challenger-expedition (Chall. exped., 1880, Zoology, 

 Vol. I, p*. VI, p. 72), he named the specimens from the 

 Chinese coasts , mentioned in his Catalogue under the name 

 E. japonica , E, chinensis and uttered his opinion , that 

 A. japonica Houttugn should be identical with E. japo- 

 nicus Schleg. According to Günther's opinion on p. 387 

 (Cat. of Fishes, Vol. VII, 1868) E. japonicus Schleg. is 

 = E. ringens, therefore we should have the following two 

 species : 



1) Cuvier et Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des Poissons, 4°. T. XXI, p. 20. 

 JS'otes from the Leyden ]Mu.seiitii , Vol. XIII. 



