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9. Liza troscheli (Bleeker). 

 Kobora (Japan). 



1858. Mugil troscheli Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschs. Ned. Ind., XVI, p. 277. — Act. 

 Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl.. VIII, i86o, p. So; Sumatra. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., III. 

 1861, p. 44S ; Coast of Java, Borneo, and Ceylon. — Day, Fish. Brit. India, 

 1878, p. 358: Indian Sea to Malay Archipelago. — Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1897, p. 70; Swatow. 



1903. Liza troscheli Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, p. 

 332; Hokoto, Formosa. — Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXVI, 

 1906, p. 11; Cavite, P. I. — Jordan & Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 

 XXVII, 1908. p. 244; Iloilo.— Smith & Seale, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, 

 p. 76; Mindanao. — Seale & Bean. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXIII, 1907, 

 p. 240 ; Zamboanga. — Jordan & Richardson, Mem. Carneg. Mus., IV, No. 4, 

 1909, p. 176: Takao ; Hokoto, Formosa. — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 XXXII. 1912, p. 493; Okinawa. — Jordan & Starks, Ann. Carneg. Mus., XI, 

 Nos. 3 & 4. 1917, P- 439: Ceylon. — Oshima, Ann. Carneg. Mus. XII, 1919, 

 Nos. 2-4 : Sobun R. ; Hokoto ; Takao, Formosa. 



Head 4 in length; depth 4.06; D. IV-2, 7; A. Ill, 9: P. 15; V. I, 

 5; width of head 1.31 in its length; eye 4; snout 3.42; interorbital 

 space 2.27; first dorsal spine 1.79; first dorsal ray 2.; third anal spine 

 3.33; first anal ray 1.79; thirty-two scales in a lateral series from gill- 

 opening above to caudal base, and three rnore large ones on the latter; 

 ten scales in a transverse series from the vent upward and backward 

 to soft dorsal ; about twenty predorsal scales. 



Body oblong, compressed posteriorly, the ventral profile much more 

 curved than the dorsal, the profile between tip of snout and spinous 

 dorsal slightly convex, gradually descending anteriorly; deepest at the 

 origin of spinous dorsal; head rather small, top more or less convex; 

 snout quadrate, truncated in front ; interorbital space rather broad, 

 slightly convex; upper jaw longer than the lower; mouth subinferior. 

 slightly oblique, its angle reaching a vertical through the posterior 

 border of the anterior nostril ; the cleft three times as broad as deep ; 

 mandibular angle obtuse ; extremity of maxillary exposed ; upper lip 

 fleshy, with a series of minute teeth along the outer edge; lower jaw 

 with no teeth, its outer edge thin and sharp ; a depression in the upper 

 jaw receiving a small knob on the symphysis of the lower jaw; lower 

 external edge of the pre-orbital finely denticulated; isthmus very nar- 

 row, elongate ; eye moderate, with no adipose eyelid ; nostrils close 

 together, the anterior a simple pore in a very short tube, the posterior 

 slit-like, a little larger. 



