40 ATHERINID^: SILVERSIDES 



I 47. Atherina breviceps Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1835. 



Atherina breviceps Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 10, 445, 1835 ; 

 Gunther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 395, 1861. 

 Type-locality. — Cape of Good Hope. 

 Range. — Shores of Southern Africa. 



48. Atherina parvipinnis Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1835. 



Atherina parvipinnis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 10, 446, 1835 ; 



Gunther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 396, 1861 ; Sauvage, Hist. Madag., 



Poiss., 408, pi. 43, fig. 3, 1891. 

 Type-locality. — Cape of Good Hope. 

 Range. — Shores of southern Africa and Madagascar. 



l/^<V^49;2Atheritia forskalii (Riippell), 1837.^*- 



? Atherina hepsetus Forskal, Descr. Anim., 69, 1775 (not of Linnaeus). 

 Atherina forskalii Riippell. Neue Wirhelthiere, Fische, 132, pi. 33, fig. 1, 1837; 

 Gunther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 397, 1861 ; Day, Fishes of India, 345, 

 pi. 71, fig. 4, 1876. 

 Atherina forskalii Klunzinger, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 130, pi. 11, fig. 3, 



1884. 

 Type-locality. — Djedda, on the Arabian side of the Red Sea. 

 Range. — Red Sea to the East Indies. 



Specimens apparently of the species from Bombay, received under 

 the name of forskalii from the British Museum, have the mandibular 

 rami elevated posteriorly. This fact indicates that the species should 

 be retained in Atherina, although it bears considerable resemblance to 

 such species of Hepsetia as H. pinguis. 



A. forskalii seems to have been unknown to American writers. The 

 specimens recorded by them under that name prove upon re-examination 

 to be referable to Hepsetia pinguis, and H. balabacensis. 



50. Atherina bleekeri Giinther, 1861. •^*- 



Atherina japonica Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., 25, 40, fig. 2, 1853 (not Atherina 

 japonica Houttuyn. a clupeid fish). 

 Type-locality. — Nagasaki, Japan. 

 Atherina bleekeri Giinther, Catalogue Fishes Brit. Mus., 3, 398, 1861 ; Jordan and 

 Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24, 201,1901. 

 Type-locality. — China. 

 Atherina valenciennesi Nystrom, Svenska Vet. Akad., Hatidl., 13, pt. 4, No. 4. 



38, 1887 (not of Bleeker). 

 Range. — Shores of China and of Japan, north to Tokyo. 



The mandibular rami of this species and the next are moderately 

 elevated posteriorly. The anus in each is extremely advanced in posi- 

 tion, being about opposite the middle of the ventrals. 



