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Pellona ajfinis Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1273. 



Pellona grayana Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIV. 1852, Haringacht., p. 25. 



Pellona grayana Kner, Novara Exp. Fische 1865 1867, p. 328. 



Pellona elongata Gunther, Cat. Brit, Mus. VII. 1 868, p. 456. 



Ilisha elongata Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 119. 



Pellona elongata Day, Fishes of India 4. 18781888, p. 643. 



Ilisha elongata Jordan & Herre, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXI. 1907, p. 635. 



Fig. 30. Pellona elongata (Benn.) 



B. 6; D. 1517; A. 40 50; P. 15 17; V. 7; L.I. 5053; 

 L. tr. 15 16. 



Oblong, compressed. Ventral profile much more cotivex 

 than . dorsal one, especially before ventrals. Height 3 3 3 / 4 , 

 head 3 2 / 3 4, eye 3 ! / 4 4, equals snout in adults. Two pairs of 

 diverging ridges on the upper surface of the head, the posterior 

 halves of which run nearly parallel. Maxillary reaches middle 

 of eye, 2 2*/ 5 in head. Oral border of maxillary without a 

 supplementary bone (cf. P. hoevenii} but with a ligament in- 

 stead. Origin of dorsal midway between snout and caudal or 

 slightly nearer to lastnamed, far behind origin of ventrals, 

 which are situated nearly in the middle between anal and 

 suboperculum. Ventrals shorter than eye. Pectorals about as 

 long as head without snout, reaching to the ventrals or not 

 so far. Anal 3 times or a little more in length. Its origin 

 below the end of the base of the dorsal or very little before 

 it. Caudal scaly, deeply incised, 3 3 / 4 4'/ 4 . Teeth on palatines, 

 pterygoids and tongue. Gillrakers 21, stout. Scales thin, deci- 

 duous, generally with a few vertical lines, hindmargin smooth. 

 32 36 abdominal scutes. Colour silvery, dark above. Fins 

 hyaline, margin of dorsal and upper, under and hindmargin 

 of caudal darker. Length over 400 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia !, Samarang, Surabaya); Madura; 

 Sumatra (Benkulen, Telokbetong, Palembang); Pinang; Singa- 



