199 



N o m. in dig. Kuru (Malay Batavia) ; Suro (Pasuruan). 

 Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra (Banju asin); Java (Batavia, 

 Pasuruan) — Malakka. 



In sea and brackish water. 



2. Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Shaw) [Fig. 64, p. 197]. 



Polyiiemus telradactylus Shaw, General Zoology V. 1804, p. 155. 

 Polynemus teria Hamilton Buchanan, Ganges Fishes, 1822, p. 224, 381. 

 Folynennts telradactylus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Mist. nat. Poissons III. 1829, p. 375, 



VII. 1831, p. 245. 

 Polynemus salliah Cantor, Journ. Royal Asiat. Soc. V. 1838, p. 166. 

 Polynemus quadrifilis Cantor, ibid. p. 166 (nee C. V.). 

 Polynemus telradactylus Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXII. 1849, Bijdr. kennis 



Percoiden, p. 57. 

 Polynemus telradactylus Cantor, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1007. 

 Polynemus tctradactylus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. i860, p. 329. 

 plleutheronema tetradactylum Bleeker, Versl. & Med. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam, 



XIV. 1862, p. 124. 

 Polynemus telradactylus Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867, p. 138. 

 Polynemus caecus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales II. 1878, p. 354. 

 Polynemus telradactylus Klunzinger, Sitzber. Akad. Wien 1880, p. 373. 

 Poly?iemus telradactylus Day, Fishes of India 4°, 1878 — 1888, p. 180. 

 Polynemus telradactylus Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova(2)IX. 1889 — 1890, 



p. 169. 

 Polyncjnits telradactylus Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1897, p. 71. 

 Polydaclylus rhadinus ]ordz.n & Evermann, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXV. 1902, p. 351. 

 Polydactylus telradactylus Jordan & Richardson, Bull, Bureau Fish. Washington 



XXVII. (1907) 1908, p. 245. 

 Poly7iemus tctradactylus Scale, Philippine Journ. Sci. V. No. 4, 19 10, p. 269. 

 Polydactylus (Eleulherojiema) telradactylus McCuUoch, Rec. \V. Austr. Mus. 



Vol. I. 1913, p. 214. 



D'. VIII;D-. I— II 13— 15; A. II 15— 17; P. 16—17 +4liberi; 



9 — 10 

 V. 1.5; L.l. 78— 80; L.tr. I . 



13—14 



Elongate. Height 3.6 — 4, 4.5 — 5.1 in length with caudal. 

 Head 3.3 — 3.9, 4.3 — 5 in length with caudal. Eyes covered by 

 a gelatinous membrane, 5.3 — 5.6 in head, i.i — 1.3 in interorbital 

 space. Snout 1.2 — 1.5 in eye, prominent. Mouth very large, 

 reaching far behind eye. Maxillaries scaly, 1.7 — 1.8 in head. 

 Head covered with scales to tip of snout. Anterior and poste- 

 rior nostrils close together, nearer to point of snout than to 

 eye. Praeoperculum serrated, its angle produced and rounded. 

 Upper lip absent, the lower lip only well developed near angle 

 of mouth. Upper and lower jaw with a broad villiform band 



