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Key to the indo-australian species of Sphyraena. 



A. Angle of praeopeiculum rounded '). 



I. LI. no — 130. Teeth in the lower jaw more or 

 less directed backwards. 

 a. L.l. 123—130. Eye 5.4 — 8.5,2.4 — 3.5 in snout. 



1. Origin of first dorsal above tip of pectorals 



and somewhat behind origin of ventrals . . S. jella p. 220. 



2. Origin of first dorsal well in advance of 



tip of pectorals and above origin of ventrals. S. altipiniiis p. 222. 

 /'. L.l. no — 120. Eye 4.5 — 4.7, twice in snout. S. forsteri p. 223. 

 II. L. 1. 80. Teeth in the lower jaw vertical S. picuda p. 224. 



B. Angle of praeoperculum rectangular. 



I. Origin of first dorsal before that of ventrals. L.l. 1 10. S. japoiiica p. 225. 

 II. Origin of first dorsal behind origin of ventrals. 

 L.l. 82—87. 



a. Origin of first dorsal before vertical through 

 tip of pectorals. Height aljout 6. Eye 4.3 — 4.5, 



not quite twice in snout : . . . S. obtitsata p. 226. 



b. Origin of first dorsal above or slightly behind 

 vertical through tip of pectorals. Height 6.7 — 7. 



Eye 4.9 — 5. Eye 2.3 in snout S. langsar p. 228. 



c. Origin of first dorsal slightly behind vertical 

 through tip of pectorals. Height about 8. Eye 



4.5, twice in snout S. brachygnatlnis p. 229. 



I. Sphyraena jello C.V. [Fig. 66, p. 219]. 



sphyraena jello Cuvijr cS: Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1829, p. 349. 

 Sphyi-aena jello Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXII (1848) 1849, Perc. p. 56; Nat. 



Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VIL 1854, p. 369: Verb. Bat. Gen. XXVI. 1854— 1857, 



Sphyraen. p. 12. 

 Sphyraena jello Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, XVIII. 1850, p. 1006. 

 Sphyraena jello Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. II. i860, p. 337. 

 Sphyraena jello Klunzinger, Abh. zool. hot. Gesellsch. Wien XX. 1870, p. 823 ; 



Fische des rothen Meeres I. 1884, 4°, p. 129. 

 Sphyraena jello Day, Fishes of India 4^, 1878 — 1888, p. 342. 

 } Sphyraena jello ]oxAoin ik. Evermann, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXV. 1902, p. 333. 

 Sphyraena jello Jordan <S; Scale, Bull. Bureau Fisheries Washington XXVI. 1906 



(1907), p. II. 

 Sphyraena jello Evermann & Scale, 1. c. p. 59. 



i) As Ogilby does not mention the form of the praeoperculum and the 

 direction of the teeth in the lower jaw in his description of S. altipiiinis^ the 

 position of this species in our key is somewhat arbitrary. 



