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1. Batrachocephalus mino (Ham. Buch.). 
Ageneiosus mino Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 159. 
Batrachocephalus ageneiosus Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Ind. III (2). 
1846, p. 176. 
Latrachocephalus micropogon Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, 
p- 119. — Atl. Ichth. Il. 1862, p. 48. 
Batrachocephalus mino Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 182. 
Batrachocephalus mino Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878—1888, p. 468. 
Fig. 143. Batrachocephalus mino (Ham. Buch.) X 4/5. 
B. $3 De LiFe As O27 ee Ora Naa: 
Height 41/,; head 3?/,—3*/,; eye 5. Headshields forming a 
cross, with the surface corrugated. Occipital process longer than 
broad at its base, its posterior end broadly emarginate and recei- 
ving the granular semicrescentic basal bone of the dorsal spine. 
Height of dorsal nearly */, of length of head, its spine denticu- 
lated at both edges, as long as postorbital part of head. Base 
of adipose fin */, of that of dorsal, more than 4 times in its 
distance from that fin. Height of anal much less than that of 
dorsal. Pectoral spine denticulated at both edges, about equal 
to or slightly longer than the dorsal one. Caudal deeply forked, 
the upper lobe the longer. Silvery, dark brown above. Fins 
yellowish, powdered with dark. Length about 250 mm. 
Nomen indig.: Ikan manjong kodok, Ikan utik (Malay.). 
Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Surabaya); Sumatra (Palembang!); 
Borneo (river Kapuas, Sarawak). — Burma and British India. 
In sea, estuaries and tidal rivers. 
