235 



• />L.\. 34 — 36. Extremity of maxilliiiy visible. 

 Lower part of upperlip witii a shallow groove 

 provided with one series of pointed papillae. 

 Origin of second dorsal opposite to 23rd or 

 24th lateral scale and to posterior half of anal. 

 Tcctorals as long as or longer than head . . A/, /al'iosiis p. 259. 



I. Mugil dussumieri C.V. 



Miigil Dussumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons XI. 1836, p. 147. 



Mugil Javanicus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 701 (nomen nudum). 



Mugil sundancnsis Bleeker. ibid. IV. 1853, p. 265. 



AFugil hrachysoma Bleeker, ibid. IX. 1855, p. 399 (juvenis abnormis). 



Mugil sundanensis Bleeker, ibid. XVI. 1858— 1859, p. 276. 



Mugil Valcncientiesii Bleeker, ibid. p. 277. 



Mugil sundanensis Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. VIII. i860, Derticnde 



Bijdr. Vischfauna Borneo, p. 45. 

 Mugil sundauensis Giinther. Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859— 1861, p. 425. 

 Mugil sundanensis Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1865, p. 138. 

 Mugil Meyeri Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) IX. 1872, p. 439. 

 Mugil dussumieri Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 352- 

 Mugil sundanensis Evermann & Scale, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXI. 1906, p. 506. 

 Mugil sundanensis Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Wash. XXXI. (1906) 1907, p. 1 1. 

 Mugil Dussumieri Max Weber, Nova Guinea V. Zool. Livr. 2, 1908, p. 243. 

 Mugil dussnmierii Mc Culloch, Check-list of fish of New South Wales, Prt. II. 



19191 P- 38. — Rec. Austr. Mus. vol. XIII. No. 4, 1921, p. 126. 



D'. IV; D-. I. 8— 9; A. III. 9; P. i5;L.l. 28— 30; L.tr. lo— ii. 



Rostro-dorsal profile straight. Height according to size 3.2 — 4.4 

 in length, 4 — 5.3 in length with caudal. Head 3.8 — 4 in length, 

 4.6 — 5.7 in length with caudal. Eye 4.2 — 4.7 in head, 2.3 — 2.6 

 in postorbital part of head ; posterior part of gelatinous eye- 

 lid well developed, covering iris totally or nearly so. Inter- 

 orbital space flat or nearly so, 2.3 — 2.7 in length of head, 

 more or less than twice the diameter of the eye. Snout equal 

 to or shorter than eye, depressed, its frontborder formed by 

 upperlip, which is conspicuously ciliated. Maxillary visible when 

 mouth is closed. Praeorbital scaly, slightly notched, denticulated. 

 Mandible with a single symphysial knob. First dorsal with 

 strong spines, in males somewhat shorter than head without 

 snout; its origin slightly nearer base of caudal than to end of 

 snout or midway between them, opposite to 9th or lo'h lateral 

 scale, separated from snout by 18 — 20 praedorsal scales, at 

 its base a long axillary scale. Origin of second dorsal opposite 

 to (i8ih) 19th or 20^ii scale. Anterior half of anal before second 

 dorsal. Both fins are thickly scaled, emarginate, as high as, 



