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B. SunDARA Ray: Freshwater Fish of Madras. 
SySTEMATIC INDEX OF SPECIES. 
Family Elopidae. 
Elops indicus oe 
Megalops cyprinoides 
Family Notopteridae. 
Notopterus notopterus 
Family Clupeidae. 
Engraulis purava 
Family Cyprinidae. 
Labeo calbasu 
Cirrhina reba 
Catla catla 
Barbus chrysopoma 
Barbus amphibius 
Barbus dorsalis 
Barbus sophare 
Barbus filamentosus... 
Barbus mahecola 
Barbus vittatus 
Rasbora daniconius ... 
Nuria danrica 
Amblypharyngodon microlepis ... 
Amblypharyngodon mola 
Chela clupeoides 
Perilampus cachtus ... 
Family Cobitididae. 
Lepidocephalichthys thermalis ... 
Family Siluridae. 
Clartus batrachus 
Saccobranchus fossilis 
Wallago attu ; ss 
Pseudeutropius atherinoides 
Artus falcarius 
Macrones cavastus 
Macyvones vittatus 
Macrones keletius 
Family Anguillidae. 
Angutila elphinstonet 
Anguilla australis 
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Family Cyprinodontidae. 
Haplochilus melanostigma 
Panchax parvus 
Family Syngnathidae. 
| Doryrhamphus brachyurus 
| Doryrhamphus cuncalus 
Family Scombresocidae. 
Belone cancila 
Family Ophiocephalidae. 
Ophiocephalus striatus 
| Ophtocephalus punctatus 
| Ophrocephalus gachua 
Family Anabantidae. 
Anabas scandens 
Family Nandidae. 
Nandus nandus 
Family Serranidae. 
| Lates calcarifer 
| Ambassts ranga 
Ambassis ambassis 
Ambassis miops : 
Family Osphromenidae. 
Osphromenus gouramt 
Macropodus cupanus 
Family Cichlidae. 
Etroplus maculatus ... 
Etroplus suvatensis ... 
Family Gobiidae. 
Eleotris fusca sa 
Gobius (Acentrogobius) neilli 
Gobius (Acentrogobius) acutipin- 
nis & 
Gobius (Glossogobius) giuris 
Gobius (Oxyurichthys) striatus ... 
Family Mastacembelidae. 
Rhyncobdella aculeata 
Mastacembelus pancalus 
Mastacembelus avmatus 
Elops indicus, Swainson.! 
(Elops saurus of the Fauna of Brit. India.) 
Tamil—A atti. 
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Habitat and Habits—Day mentions tropical and subtropical 
seas as the habitat of this fish, while Drs. Max Weber and De Beau- 
fort regard EL. hawatensis and E. machnata as sea fish.” ‘The Madras 
species, however, appears to be-essentially an estuarine fish, which 

a Dr. B. L. Chaudhuri has discussed the Indian species of this genus in de- 
tail in his report on the fish of the Chilka Lake, in vol. V of the Memovcrs of the 
Indian Museum, pp. 413-416. 
monly at Madras should be called Elops indicus, Swainson. 
4 Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, U1, p. 4. 
He concludes that the species that occurs com- 
