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MEMOIES 



OF THE 



CABNEG-IE MUSEUM. 



VOL. IV. NO. 4 



A CATALOG OF THE FISHES OF THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA, OR 

 TAIWAN, BASED ON THE COLLECTIONS OF DR. 



HANS SAUTER. 



By David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. 



In the year 1906 a large collection of the market-fishes of the island of For- 

 mosa was made by Dr. Hans Sauter. These were sent to the writers for identifica- 

 tion, and were at our suggestion purchased by the Carnegie Museum, in which the}' 

 are now preserved. A number of duplicates have been presented to the Museum of 

 Stanford University in California. 



This collection was obtained in the port of Takao, or Takow, on the south- 

 western coast of the island of Formosa, called in Japanese Taiwan. It is in excel- 

 lent condition, and gives a good representation of the market-fishes of Formosa. 



For the sake of completeness we have included in this list the fishes recorded 

 by Jordan and Evermann in a paper entitled " Notes on a Collection of Fishes 

 from the Island of Formosa" (Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXV, 

 1902, pp. 315-368), and also the species recorded by Giinther, Regan, and others, 

 which are preserved in the British Museum. 



We desire to acknowledge the courtesy of the authorities of the United States 

 National Museum, who have permitted us herewith to reproduce the figures of 

 those species, which were given in the paper referred to above. The plates accom- 

 panying this article were drawn by Mr. William Sackston Atkinson. 

 The following species are here described as new to science : 

 1'fisiiiirus sauteri, Scolopsis eriomma, 



Raja hollcmdi, Pseudofolitlinx brurmeolus, 



Leptocephalus ectenums, Hemipteronotus evides, 



Ophiehthus evermanni, Glossogobius abacopus, 



Gymnothorax leucostigma. 

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