JPrtstigasler russellianus GUnther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 462 

 Raconda russelliana Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. livr. 25, 26. 1872, p. 124. 

 Raconda russelliana Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 646. 



Fig. 33. Raconda riisselliana Gray. 



B. 6; A. 8392; P. 13; L.I. 6064; L. tr. 12. 



Oblong, strongly compressed, anterior portion of ventral 

 profile very convex. JDorsal profile concave above the orbits. 

 Height 3 4 / 5 , head 5 3 / 4 , eye 3 3 ! / 4 , longer than snout. Maxil- 

 lary reaching to middle of eye, in adults as far as gillopening. 

 Pectorals about as long as head without chin. Caudal deeply 

 forked, the lower lobe the longer. Gillrakers about 22, less 

 long than half eye. Scales very deciduous, in regular horizontal 

 rows. 31 38 feeble abdominal scutes. A narrow dark blackish 

 band along the back, sides yellowish, below silvery. A deep 

 brown or black spot on the shoulder, sometimes continued on 

 to the opercle. Length about 200 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Bagan Api Api !), Singapore. Malay 

 Peninsula to Bay of Bengal. In sea, near shore. 



7. Fam. Alepocephalidae. 



Elongate, compressed. Head almost always naked. Body 

 covered with thin cycloid scales, at least in the lateral line. 

 Barbels none. Nostrils close to the eye. Mouth moderate or 

 large, its upper margin formed by intermaxilla and maxilla. 

 The intermaxilla being placed along the anterior inferior edge 

 of the latter, which has a supplemental bone at its hindpart. 

 Feeble teeth on mandibles, intermaxilla, sometimes on maxilla 

 and mostly on palatines. No adipose fin. Anal more or less 

 below dorsal. Pectorals placed rather high; ventrals about in 

 the middle of the length of the body, sometimes wanting. 

 Anus behind middle of body. Opercles complete, but very 

 thin. Gillopening very wide, partially covered by a continuation 

 of the skin of the head and by the gillmembranes, which are 



