334 y 



I. Anabas testudineus (Bl.) [Fig. 86, pag. 333]. 



Anthias testudineus Bloch, Ausland. Fische VI. 1795, p. 121. 



Perca scandens Daldorff, Transact. Linn. Soc. III. 1797, p. 62. 



Amphiprion testudineus Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol. 1801, p. 204. 



Amphipricn scansor Bloch, Schneider, ibid. p. 570. 



Lutjanus testudo Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons I\^. 1803, p. 235. 



Lutjanus scandens Lacepede, ibid. p. 239. 



Spaitis testudineus Shaw, Zool. IV. 1803, p. 471. 



Sparus scandens Shaw, ibid. p. 475. 



Anabas testudineus Cuvier, Regne Animal, cd. la. II. 181 7, p. 310. 



Cojus cohojius Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 98 & 370. 



Anabas scandens Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons VII. 1831, p. 249. 



Anabas spiuosus Gray. 111. Ind. Zool. II, 1834, pi. LXXXIX. fig. i. 



Anabas scandens Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1064. 



Anabas scandens Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Eijdr. Kennis Visschen 



met doolhofvormige kieuwen, p. 8. 

 Anabas variegatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 185 1, p. 220 (after a 



drawing only). 

 Anabas niacrocephalus Bleeker, ibid. VII. 1854, p. 430. 

 Anabas oligolepis Bleeker, ibid. VIII. 1855, p. 161. 

 Anabas scandens Bleeker, ibid. XIII. 1857, p. 329. 



Anabas microcephalus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857, Achtste Bijdr. 

 vischfauna Amboina, p. 58. 



Anabas scandens Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. iSfrl, p. 375. 

 Anabas macroctphahis Gunther, ibid. p. 376. 

 Anabas oligolepis Gunther, 1. c. 



Anabas testtidineus Peters, Monatsber, Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 259. 



Anabas oligolepis Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869, p. 521. 



Anabas oligolepis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 395, fig. 5. — Verh. Kon. 

 Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Mem. Poissons pharyng. labyrinth, p. 5. 



Anabas testudineus Bleeker, ibid. p. 7 ; Atl. ibid. tab. 396, fig. 2 & 3. 



Anabas microcephalus Bleeker, ibid. p. 105 Atl. ibid. tab. 395, fig. 2. 



Anabas scandens Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 370. 



Anabas scandens Vinciguerra, Ann. Museo Civico Genova(2) IX. 1889 — 1890, p. 186. 



Anabas scandens Reuvens, Notes Leyden Mus. XVI. N°. 3 and 4, 1895, p. H6. 



Anabas elongatus Reuvens, ibid. p. 147. 



Anabas scandens Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Gesellsch. XXV. 1901, p. 433. 



Anabas scandens Smith, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXI. (1901) 1902, p. 170. 



Anabas scandens Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Wash. (1906) 1907, p. 26. 



Anabas scandens Tate Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 771. 



Anabas scandens Sundara Raj, Rec. Ind. Mus. XII. Prt. VI. 1916. p. 276. 



Anabas scandens van Oye, Contr. a la faune des Indes Neerl. I. fasc. HI. 191 7, 

 p. 306, 307. 



D. XVI— XIX. 7— 10; A. IX— XL 8— II; P. 14—16; V. I. 5 ; 



L. ]. 26 — 31; L. tr. I . 

 7 — ^10 

 Head subcylindrical, body and tail more or les.s compre.ssed. 



