5 
two supplemental bones. Mandibula prominent. Eyes large. 
Dorsal behind origin of ventrals, shorter than anal. Last 
Fig. 3. Larval stage of Megalops cyprinoides Brouss. X 43 after 
VAN KAMPEN. @ anus, s swimbladder, v ventral fin. 
dorsal ray produced in a long filament. Villiform teeth on 
jaws, vomer, palatines, pterygoids and tongue. Branchiostegals 
23-27. No pseudobranchiae. 
Passing through a ribbon-shaped larval stage. (Fig. 3). 
1. Megalops cyprinoides (Brouss.). 
Clupea cyprinoides Broussonet. Ichthyol. Dec. I. 1782. 
f Megalops indicus Bleeker. Journ. Ind. Arch. II. 1849, p. 67. 
Elops cundinga Cantor. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal. XVIII. 1850, p. 1271. 
Megalops macropthalmus Bleeker. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. I. 1851, p. 421. 
Megalops indicus Kner. Fische Novara Exp. 1865—67, p. 339. 
Megalops cyprinoides Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIT. 1868, p. 471. 
Megalops macropterus Bleeker. Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—72, p. 85. 
Megalops filamentosus Bleeker. Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—72, p. 86. 
Megalops kundinga Bleecker. Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—72, p. 87. 
Megalops cyprinoides Bleeker. Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—72, p. 87. 
Megalops cyprinoides Day. Fishes of India. 4°. 1878—88, p. 650. 
Megalops cyprinoides Sauvage. Hist. Madagascar. Vol. XVI. 1891, p. 495. 
Megalops cyprinoides Giinther. Fische der Siidsee. Heft VIII. 1909, p. 387. 
Megalops cyprinoides Max Weber. Siboga-Exp. Fische. 1913. p. 1. 
Fig. 4. Megalops cyprinoides Brouss. 
B. 23—27; D. 16—20; A. 23—28; P. 14—15; V. 1O—II; 
Pelabout doy: L, tr. 12. 
